Tessa Jowell backs ACE proposals

Arts Minister Tessa Jowell has publicly backed proposals from the Arts Council of England (ACE) to restructure the funding system, abolishing the Regional Arts Boards and creating a single-tier national funding structure based on a series of regional executive offices reporting to a national strategic office and supported by a central support services team . She has described the proposed restructuring as a "key piece of public service reform", and endorsed ACE's latest plans, saying that they provide "an excellent blueprint for a new single organisation with much greater levels of local involvement." Full details of the new structure proposed by ACE have now been published in a document entitled 'Working Together for the Arts'. Further details on p4.