{"id":21375,"date":"2019-01-18T17:16:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21375"},"modified":"2019-01-18T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T17:16:49","slug":"cambridge-cc-to-bring-cambridge-live-cultural-services-back-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21375","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge CC to bring Cambridge Live cultural services back in-house"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21376\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Cambridge_skyline_LocalGov_website_180119.png\" alt=\"building roofs\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Cambridge City Council (CC) has announced it will return to providing cultural services directly after Cambridge Live struggled to meet financial targets.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: LocalGov website<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>LocalGov writes:<\/p>\n<p>[Cambridge] city council has announced it will be in the best interests of residents, staff and customers for the authority to take direct control of all activity covered by the current contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sadly, after much hard work with Cambridge Live it became apparent that they were not going to be able to meet their financial targets. This is why we have stepped in now,\u2019 said Cllr Anna Smith, executive councillor for communities\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bringing the Cambridge Live contract back does not mean we are planning to change the scheduled programme of Cambridge Live events,\u2019 Cllr Smith added. \u2018In fact, it is because we want to be able to make a commitment to the current programme, that we have agreed to return control of Cambridge Live to the council\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The process of transferring services and staff back to the council will conclude in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Cambridge-CC-to-bring-cultural-services-back-in-house\/46614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge City Council (CC) has announced it will return to providing cultural services directly after Cambridge Live struggled to meet financial targets. image: LocalGov website<\/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-21375","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\/21375","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=21375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21377,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375\/revisions\/21377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}