{"id":20794,"date":"2018-11-16T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20794"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:29:16","slug":"canal-river-trust-consults-on-restructure-that-puts-240-roles-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20794","title":{"rendered":"Canal &#038; River Trust consults on restructure that puts 240 roles \u2018at risk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CanalRiverTrust_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20800\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CanalRiverTrust_Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>The Canal &amp; River Trust has begun a consultation on moving\u00a0resource to regional teams, potentially\u00a0putting some 240 staff\u00a0\u201cat risk\u201d of redundancy, although the charity says it hopes to &#8220;redesign&#8221;\u00a0many of the roles.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Civil\u00a0Society\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement made earlier this month, the charity said it would seek\u00a0\u201cto improve customer service and to engage with local communities,\u201d as part of its new strategy.\u00a0 The Trust wants to move resources from \u201ccentrally-based roles\u201d to \u201csix customer-facing regional teams\u201d, which could affect 240 staff members whose existing roles are now being described as \u201cat risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The charity has begun consulting with trade unions and those staff members affected&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Richard Parry, chief executive, said: \u201cThe trust has been repositioning as a charity for the waterways and wellbeing, with a new structure that has seen us move from ten waterways to six larger regions, with some activities previously managed centrally now devolved to these regional teams, and a reduction in senior manager numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intention is to redesign roles to meet what the trust needs for the future rather than to removed these posts from the organisation entirely&#8230; \u00a0Operations roles will be focussed on how to deliver great customer service for boaters, towpath users and visitors to our numerous attractions, and there will be greater capacity to react and respond to the needs of the local waterway and surrounding communities&#8230;. \u00a0&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>According to its most recent set of accounts for the year ending 31 March 2018, the Canal &amp; River Trust employed nearly 1,700 staff, with 84 staff receiving salaries of over \u00a360,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/news\/canal-river-trust-consults-on-restructure-that-puts-240-roles-at-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canal &amp; River Trust has begun a consultation on moving\u00a0resource to regional teams, potentially\u00a0putting some 240 staff\u00a0\u201cat risk\u201d of redundancy, although the charity says it hopes to &#8220;redesign&#8221;\u00a0many of the roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20801,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions\/20801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}