Joint Advisory Commitee on Built Environment Education (JACBEE)
In September 2003 DCMS and DfES set up the Joint Advisory Committee on Built Environment Education (JACBEE) to explore ways to promote and develop the educational potential of the contemporary and historic built environment.
The JACBEE committee, chaired by Gillian Wolfe, Head of Education at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, was made up of experts from a wide range of cultural organisations with interests in heritage and the built environment.
DCMS's long term goal in setting up JACBEE was to bring the sector together to think of ways of empowering current and future generations to become more confident and aware of their roles and responsibilities as citizens and consumers of heritage, buildings and public space.
In September 2004 the JACBEE committee reported to Ministers their conclusions. JACBEE argued that the poor level of cultural engagement from schools and communities with the historic and contemporary built environment was due to the built environment sector lacking a joined up, holistic strategy to learning and public engagement.
To help DCMS and DfES address this problem JACBEE offered a package of recommendations to join up the wide range of providers and to develop a common approach to learning. The principal recommendation was for CABE and English Heritage to collaborate with the wider sector to create a One Stop Shop for Built Environment Education that will provide tools, resources and support for schools to engage with the fabric of their local communities.
Over the course of 2005 DCMS, CABE and EH have explored ways of actualising the One Stop Shop concept. With help from the Post JACBEE Steering Group (that maintains the JACBEE coalition), a proposal approved by CABE and EH was put up to David Lammy in November 2005. The proposal was for a new project called Engaging Places that aimed to bring about a coherent, user-led initiative to improve public engagement with heritage and the built environment. David Lammy gave approval to the Engaging Places proposal in December 2005.
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