{"id":47976,"date":"2026-09-11T16:49:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47976"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:49:57","slug":"hes-chief-quits-amid-deepening-governance-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47976","title":{"rendered":"HES Chief quits amid deepening governance crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scotland\u2019s national heritage charity HES has been hit by another major leadership departure as Chief Executive Katerina Brown has resigned just months after returning from suspension, reports <em><u>Third Force News.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Third Force News<\/u><\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Historic Environment Scotland said: \u2018We can confirm that Katerina Brown is leaving Historic Environment Scotland\u2026 We are unable to provide any further information on individual personnel matters.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown joined HES in 2024 from the National Trust for Scotland\u2026 she\u2026 was signed off on health grounds in June 2025 while an investigation\u2026 was under way and was later suspended. An investigation subsequently resulted in no disciplinary action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tfn.scot\/news\/chief-quits-amid-deepening-governance-crisis\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/news\/scottish-heritage-charity-chief-resigns-after-return-from-suspension.html\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland\u2019s national heritage charity HES has been hit by another major leadership departure as Chief Executive Katerina Brown has resigned just months after returning from suspension, reports Third Force 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":[797,474,83],"class_list":["post-47976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-hes","tag-leadership","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47976","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=47976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47977,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47976\/revisions\/47977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}