English Heritage has consulted staff on changes to its education department, following a decision to split the organisation in two.
From March 2015, a self-financing charity retaining the English Heritage name will be set up to look after the National Heritage Collection. Planning and heritage protection responsibilities will be run by a separate body, provisionally called the National Heritage Protection Service (NHPS).
The organisation is assessing how its education team might change as a result of the new structure.
The consultation included a proposal to have an education team within English Heritage to promote free educational visits and create education resource developer roles to produce online learning resources.
The second proposal was for an education team to be set up within the NHPS to deliver the £2.7m Department for Education-funded Heritage Schools Programme until it ends in 2015.
A press statement said the team would subsequently “work to inspire more people to enjoy and understand their local heritage through partnership projects with other heritage and education institutions”.
English Heritage employs the equivalent of 14.5 full-time staff in education. The proposal is to have 17 roles in education, 15 of which would be in the new charity.
But it is unclear what these roles will be. Museums Journal understands that several existing education roles may be deleted, but English Heritage was unable to confirm this.
A spokesman said no one had been put on notice of redundancy. “The proposal would create new roles and responsibilities to reflect the new structure,” he added. “The proposal would not see a reduction in the resources allocated to education.”
English Heritage’s policy is to make all new roles available to any staff whose posts are at risk of redundancy, before they are advertised more widely.
In 2010, following a 32% cut to its government funding, English Heritage announced that it was closing its entire outreach department.
The organisation receives £101.4m in public funding a year.
From March 2015, a self-financing charity retaining the English Heritage name will be set up to look after the National Heritage Collection. Planning and heritage protection responsibilities will be run by a separate body, provisionally called the National Heritage Protection Service (NHPS).
The organisation is assessing how its education team might change as a result of the new structure.
The consultation included a proposal to have an education team within English Heritage to promote free educational visits and create education resource developer roles to produce online learning resources.
The second proposal was for an education team to be set up within the NHPS to deliver the £2.7m Department for Education-funded Heritage Schools Programme until it ends in 2015.
A press statement said the team would subsequently “work to inspire more people to enjoy and understand their local heritage through partnership projects with other heritage and education institutions”.
English Heritage employs the equivalent of 14.5 full-time staff in education. The proposal is to have 17 roles in education, 15 of which would be in the new charity.
But it is unclear what these roles will be. Museums Journal understands that several existing education roles may be deleted, but English Heritage was unable to confirm this.
A spokesman said no one had been put on notice of redundancy. “The proposal would create new roles and responsibilities to reflect the new structure,” he added. “The proposal would not see a reduction in the resources allocated to education.”
English Heritage’s policy is to make all new roles available to any staff whose posts are at risk of redundancy, before they are advertised more widely.
In 2010, following a 32% cut to its government funding, English Heritage announced that it was closing its entire outreach department.
The organisation receives £101.4m in public funding a year.
