28th January 2013, 02:37 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I share some of the dis-ease with the proposals, but it seems unlikely that CADW_RCAHMW can hold out when similar bodies in England and Scotland have gone down the merger line. But perhaps there should be a nationwide discussion...Maybe the time has come to truly rationalise costs and amalgamate all of these regional/national bodies AND the National Trusts into one single heritage body covering Great Britain......As Uo1 might suggest, there seems to be little point in running 5 or 6 separate pension schemes when one single redundancy agreement could cover them all!!
National Trust and National Trust for Scotland are independent bodies in the third sector (i.e. they're charities independent from the State)
It's an tricky situation, I'm still worried about the RCAHMS/HS merger but it's got to go better than it did in England. Perhaps RCAHMW/C should hold off and see how the Scottish situation develops...