{"id":906,"date":"2012-12-14T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=906"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:33","slug":"cultural-olympiad-funding-internal-review-finds-arts-council-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/cultural-olympiad-funding-internal-review-finds-arts-council-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Olympiad funding – internal review finds Arts Council “innocent”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arts Council England<\/strong> has found no evidence of malpractice in the way it funded “artist-led” projects in Yorkshire, following an investigation<\/a> by Help Me Investigate user Carol Lee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Following an internal review<\/a>\u00a0which interviewed only six people, Arts Professional’s Liz Hill suggests<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0the body is attempting to “reinvent history”:<\/p>\n

“Suggesting that the title of the programme \u2018Artists Taking the Lead\u2019 was referring to the project selection process, and that the na\u00efve artists who thought they were in with a chance of turning their artistic dreams into reality were \u2018mistaken\u2019 about the nature of the funding scheme, is insulting in the extreme.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arts Professional\u00a0reports on the review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The report is based on published documents, together with six interviews by Efunshile, five of them with Yorkshire ATTL panel members and one a former member of Leeds City Council. Whilst acknowledging that the expression of interest for the programme was drafted jointly by the Artistic Director of Yorkshire Dance and the City Council\u2019s Head of Arts and Events on behalf of the Leeds Canvas consortium group, Efunshile says: \u201cI do not agree that this is evidence that the bid was not artist-led or that the bid was in fact Leeds City Council led.\u201d She admits that the \u201cguidance was clear that \u2018Ideas cannot be accepted from organisations which are not led by artists such as local authorities or higher education institutions…\u2019\u201d”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Arts Council England has found no evidence of malpractice in the way it funded “artist-led” projects in Yorkshire, following an investigation by Help Me Investigate user Carol Lee. Following an internal review\u00a0which interviewed only six people, Arts Professional’s Liz Hill … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[638,648,621,620,636,650,649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}