Providing a voice for the region's historic environment
Heritage and education
In addition to regular features Heritage Counts 2007 included topics as follows:
- Description of the impact of the Heritage White Paper, Planning White Paper and other major policy developments for the historic environment
- Reviewed the meaning and use of indicators for the historic environment since the first Heritage Counts in 2003
- Workforce for the historic environment in terms of availability of people with relevant skills and occupations and provision of training
- Highlighted the role of learning and the historic environment, through projects such as Engaging Places, and the potential for positive impacts on young people’s attitudes and behaviour; and skills, knowledge and educational attainment.
- Research reports on attending heritage sites and review of research on values and benefits of heritage
Related Documents
UK Built Heritage Sector Professionals 2008: Current Skills, Future Training (2008)
This report seeks to provide a separate assessment of the needs of UK building professionals – architects, building control officers, conservation officers and specialists, engineers, planners, surveyors and property managers – to establish their training, knowledge and skills in relation to specifying for and advising on traditional buildings and structures.
Traditional Building Craft Skills: England (2008)
This Skills Needs Analysis report, commissioned by the NHTG and funded by the Sector Skills Development Agency, ConstructionSkills and English Heritage, reviews and evaluate the impact of the work of the NHTG in addressing the skills shortage identified in the first-ever NHTG Skills Needs Analysis of the built heritage sector, published in 2005.
Main technical report: Attending heritage sites (2007)
This report has been produced by the centre for economics and business research (cebr) for English Heritage.
Summary report: Attending heritage sites (2007)
A quantitative analysis of data from the Taking Part survey
Values and benefits of heritage (2007)
Compiled for Heritage Counts 2007 by the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Policy and Research Department.
Heritage Protection for the 21st Century - White Paper (2007)
The paper sets out a vision of a unified and simpler heritage protection system, which will have more opportunities for public involvement and community engagement. This consultation has now ended. The consultation period was 8 March - 1 June 2007.
Heritage Protection for the 21st Century - an analysis of consultation responses (Nov 2007)
The consultation on the White Paper, Heritage Protection for the 21st Century, closed on 1 June 2007. Approximately 340 responses from a range of stakeholders and members of the public were received.
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