A sad and angry thread: The National Theatre is terminating the contracts of all casual staff across their building on 31 August despite the news that the government have put together a £1.57B rescue package for the arts.
The NT is a National Portfolio Organisation and has ‘committed to improving gender, ethnicity and disability representation among their staff as part of their subsidy agreements with ACE since 2014/15.’ thestage.co.uk/news/slow-prog…
Last year, 15.5% of staff identified as being from a BAME background. How many of this 15.5% are on casual contracts and will be directly effected by these job cuts? nationaltheatre.org.uk/about-the-nati…
What percentage of permanent staff in secure/management positions at the NT are POC? In a meeting on 06/07 Alex Baley, head of Audience and Marketing said: “we realise a lot of the diversity lies within casual contracts and it's very, deeply regrettable”
Last month, the NT put out this statement regarding Black Lives Matter in the wake of George Floyd: 
Within weeks they put out an email to staff emphasising the importance of retaining ‘skilled’ staff:
And an email letting casual staff know that they would be let go:
Redundancies during this time are regrettably unavoidable, but what is the National Theatre doing to put in place systemic change in order to increase diversity amongst its staff? Should the National Theatre be allowed to retain NPO status otherwise?
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