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Arts restructure

By: a-n

The latest in a long line of organisational restructuring at Arts Council England is designed both to save overheads and restore the council’s credibility within the sector and politically.

Despite £5m in redundancy payments to staff, 131 of whom will lose jobs in the streamlining process, some £6.5m in additional funds will be on offer to arts organisations, year on year. The 2008 McIntosh review of the council's last investment strategy and contact with key stakeholders shows that it needed to operate differently to maintain trust and authority. The aim of the restructure is to establish the Arts Council as a unified body that can "realise and articulate a national ambition, while maintaining a strong regional presence". The biggest changes are a smaller head office in London (no longer the 'national' office'), rationalisation of the administration of Grants for the Arts to Manchester, and creation by merger of three super regions – North East and North West England and Yorkshire; East and West Midlands and South West, and South East and East and the retaining of London as it currently is. The Arts Council say that they are "retaining our regional office structure of nine frontline regional offices to lead on: •relationships with arts organisations and partners in their region •relationships with artists, including helping to develop appropriate...

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