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initiate new activity would be impaired. Avoiding these cuts takes priority over any new activity.
16.23 Operational budgets for arts work overseas would also have to be cut by 5%, with serious consequences for the viability of smaller countries' arts programmes. Headquarters support for overseas operations would also be affected. The Council's ability to initiate collaborative projects for the promotion of British ELT and educational resources overseas would be curtailed. Budgets for book promotion and literature activity would be reduced. Multi-media exhibitions and audio-visual programmes for Representatives would be put at risk. There would also be a sharp reduction in the level of welfare and information services provided to overseas students and visitors in Britain.
Deployment of resources to priority areas 16.24 In order to achieve its objectives within the priorities and principal management concerns outlined in paragraph 2.1 (page 1), the Council will give preference to four areas in the deployment of resources:
• relocation
• geographical priorities
• recruitment and retention of staff
• investment.
Relocation
16.25 The relocation grant of £7.3 million in 1991/92 is expected to cover most relocation costs falling in that year. However, the figures are sensitive to changes in the number of staff relocating, the financial terms for which they are eligible and the timing of staff movements. When these critical factors have been finally deter- mined, the cost in 1991/92 may be adjusted.
Geographical priorities
16.26 In 1990/91, as well as deploying the £5.6 million increased grant for overseas operations, the Council will redeploy about £1 million to priority regions from existing overseas budgets; it expects to redeploy similar amounts in each of the three planning years. However, the geographical plans for 1991/92 onwards, outlined in chapter 7, can only be achieved in full with a higher real level of government grant (see table 9, page 27).
Recruitment and retention of staff
16.27 In order to introduce more attractive terms of employment in a competitive recruitment market, the Council will allocate £0.18 million in 1991/92 to setting up child-care facilities in the Manchester and London offices and improving the Council's occupational health service.
Investment
16.28 In line with corporate priorities, the Council plans to invest more than £12 million in 1990/91 in property, IT systems, expansion of the DTE network and business and management development. This will rise to £17 million in 1991/92, including the relocation project, and continue at a level of about £10 million per annum in the later years of the triennium.
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