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1. 1. The All Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group

   www.appag.org.uk/hearings.html - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/19/2006   Last Visited: 12/27/2007

   Tom Cassidy, Chief Executive, CADW.

2. 2. HEG minutes June 2005

   www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/upload/r - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/2005   Last Visited: 7/16/2006

   Tom Cassidy - Cadw, Chairman
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   Tom Cassidy welcomed members to the new Cadw offices in Nantgarw, especially Bill Britnell, Peter Wakelin and Richard Kelly who were attending HEG for the first time.
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   2. Terms of Reference: Tom Cassidy said that the revised terms of reference
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   5. Tom Cassidy said that the Culture Minister had made a statement on the historic environment to a plenary session of the National Assembly on 26 April. The statement had covered a number of areas including a proposed change to the status of Cadw to take effect on 1 July when Cadw would become an Assembly directorate rather than an executive agency. In practice the change would not alter the existing working arrangements since Cadw was already an integral part of the Assembly Government but hopefully this would be less confusing, especially to those outside government. Cadw would become part of the wider Culture Department that would be established in 2006 to reflect the range of Ministerial portfolios - though the term Culture Department was being associated with the new department, as far as Cadw was aware, no formal decision on the name had yet been taken.
   
   6. A copy of the full debate that followed the Minister's statement had been circulated prior to the meeting. Tom Cassidy said the Group may have noted that some Assembly Members had made the point that Cadw was unresponsive to local buildings, and especially in not taking steps to aid their protection. Paradoxically, one of the other criticisms levelled at Cadw was that too many buildings were listed. He said that one of the key roles of HEG would be to engage people and communities so that more could be done to help local buildings, rather than extending statutory protection.
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   8. Tom Cassidy said that the meeting between Ministers and Chief Executives of local and national park authorities was a commitment made by the Culture and Local Government Ministers in January 2004 - at the same time as the announcement of the establishment of HEG.
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   10. Tom Cassidy said that the Group had considered education in the context of schools at its last meeting and Cadw had prepared a specification that would be used to engage consultants, which had been circulated. However, Cadw had more latterly discovered that in England DCMS and DfES had established a working group (the Joint Advisory Committee on Built Environment Education) in 2003 to examine similar issues. The group made recommendations in 2004, the result of which would likely be the creation of a 'one stop shop' for built environment education (wider than just the historic environment) which would involve organisations such as CABE, English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund. He said that he did not quite see the benefit of a 'one-stop shop' approach since it would effectively remove partnership arrangements by setting up a self-standing unit.
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   Tom Cassidy said that enquiries would have to be made within the Assembly on the procurement arrangements that should accompany the consultancy, but that members would be kept informed of progress and timing.
   
   Agenda Item 5 - Life Long Learning, Continuing Education and Skills
   
   13. Tom Cassidy said that Cadw's framework document mentioned education twice, not specifically in relation to children, but in the broader context of improving a general understanding and appreciation of the historic environment. Cadw had a substantial publications programme, as well as interpretative facilities provided at Cadw sites to address this. He also gave a brief rundown of the initiatives that Cadw was involved in, including the bursary scheme, for which funding was being sought from the HLF.
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   15. Tom Cassidy said that there seemed no obvious way in which the Group could help substantively in this area, since it seemed that the nub of the problem was in funding and direction of training institutions.
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   17. Tom Cassidy said that, to get a better understanding of the problems of skill shortages, Cadw would obtain a copy of the recent report by the National Training Heritage Group and try and identify the obstacles in addressing the skills shortages, and actions it suggested.
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   4.2 The Working Group will report to the Historic Environment Group with minutes of all meetings being sent to the Chairman, Tom Cassidy.
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   4. Report on a meeting held with Tom Cassidy, Chair of the Historic Environment Group The Chairman reported that a meeting had been held with Tom Cassidy and Richard Avent at the Cadw offices.
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   The meeting with Tom Cassidy and Richard Avent resulted in a suggestion that the Drafting Group might become a National Panel for Archaeological Archives, as it was felt that a Panel for Archaeology would be too difficult to create.

3. 3. Three Castles -

   www1.three-castles.co.uk/11/fr - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/21/2004   Last Visited: 8/24/2004

   Caernarfon Castle (pictured here) is our finish venue this year, and we hope to see Cadw Chief Executive Tom Cassidy during the event.