Museum Policy Consultation

Overview

The Department for Communities (DfC) is the Executive department with responsibility for policy for the museums sector in Northern Ireland. The current policy - “Northern Ireland Museums Policy” – was published in 2011 and this consultation is part of the process to establish a new policy to replace it.

The focus of this consultation is on the draft vision statement, the 12 policy aims that are proposed as the basis of a new policy for Government support of Northern Ireland’s museum sector, and on a number of emerging issues where action might be taken. The vision and aims have been prepared following engagement with people across the museums sector and research on modern, good practice, nationally and internationally. Your views are important to us and will help inform the new policy.  A background paper and other related documents are available on the DfC website.

If you are responding on behalf of an organisation, we would ask that only one person from each organisation submits a response. A paper-based questionnaire is available on request from HCCpublicconsultation@communities-ni.gov.uk

For this consultation, we may publish all responses except for those where the respondent indicates that they do not wish for their responses to be published. All responses from organisations and individuals responding in a professional capacity may be published. We will remove any personal data, including email addresses and telephone numbers, from these responses; but apart from this, we may publish them in full. For more information about what we do with personal data please see our consultation privacy notice.

Your response, and all other responses to this consultation, may also be disclosed on request in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR); however, all disclosures will be in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (UK) 2016/679.

If you want the information that you provide to be treated as confidential it would be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential, so that this may be considered if the Department should receive a request for the information under the FOIA or EIR.

In order to facilitate the survey, Citizen Space, which is not operated by DfC, is used as a data processor. Details of Citizen Space's privacy policy can be found online at Citizen Space Privacy Policy.