The Welsh Historic Environment Strategic Statement: Action Plan

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Regeneration and sustainable development through heritage
Objectives Lead body Supporting
body
Practical action 2009–11 and beyond
People with the skills
and understanding to
conserve and regenerate
heritage assets.
People with the skills
and understanding to
make decisions about
the historic environment.
NHTG/Cadw
Construction
Skills
Cadw/WCVA
NHTG
Cadw
NTW
Construction
Skills/Cadw/
HLF
IHBC/WLGA
Promotion of conservation and traditional building craft skills.
Participation in partnership to continue implementing the
Traditional Skills Bursary Scheme.
October 2010 Cadw continues to support the development of
traditional skills both in house with its Cadwraeth Cymru craft
team and in the wider historic environment as a partner in the
Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme and in the Wales
Traditional and Sustainability Building Skills Advisory Group.
In conjunction with DCELLS, develop opportunities for
promoting traditional skills through the 14–19 Pathways project.
October 2010 Cadw will be discussing with Construction Skills
Wales and DCELLS the inclusion of heritage skills in the 14–19
Pathways project.
Develop opportunities with the third sector for volunteering at
heritage sites.
October 2010 Currently in the early stages of scoping out a
programme of work to develop a volunteering policy and
strategy. Initial work being undertaken to consult a variety of
third sector organizations for advice, explore opportunities for
working in partnership and develop an action timetable.
Development of training opportunities for conservation and
heritage skills. Participation in the Wales training group to develop
a pilot action plan to promote heritage training in Wales. Work to
develop a pilot for a shared apprenticeship scheme in traditional
skills and support HLF Skills for the Future programme.
October 2010 The Historic Environment Group has decided to
convene a workshop, and potentially a sub-group to explore
skills gaps and suggest responses.
Development of a targeted programme of training and mentoring
of local planning authority staff engaged in the management of
the historic environment, and in listed building and conservation
area control skills in particular, by April 2010.
October 2010 First round of listed building consent training/
mentoring workshops with each authority completed in
February 2010; new round to be arranged in 2011 in the light
of evaluation.