{"id":46558,"date":"2026-05-01T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46558"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:23:14","slug":"scottish-government-supports-hes-chair-amid-resignation-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46558","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Government supports HES chair amid resignation reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scottish Government has said it will support the chair of Historic Environment Scotland to \u2018resolve the leadership and governance issues\u2019 amid reports of his impending resignation, reports <em>Deadline News.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Deadline News<\/u><\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes after The Herald reported on Wednesday that Sir Mark Jones, chair of Historic Environment Scotland (HES), was understood to be preparing to step down from his position&#8230; Described as \u2018one of the most respected museum leaders in the world\u2019, Jones was brought in to help the troubled quango.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 a Scottish Government spokesperson told <em>Deadline News<\/em>: \u2018\u2026 The Culture Secretary and the Scottish Government will continue to support him in this endeavour to resolve the leadership and governance issues that have been raised.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadlinenews.co.uk\/2026\/04\/23\/scottish-government-supports-hes-chair-amid-resignation-reports\/\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government has said it will support the chair of Historic Environment Scotland to \u2018resolve the leadership and governance issues\u2019 amid reports of his impending resignation, reports Deadline News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[36,9,797,83],"class_list":["post-46558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-culture","tag-government","tag-hes","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46558","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46559,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46558\/revisions\/46559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}