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From 1 April 2011, the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) will carry out its statutory functions of advice, advocacy and watchdog through its Chairman, Dr Stuart Burgess, the Commissioners and a small, flexible staff team. The streamlined CRC will continue to act a critical friend to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), particularly but not exclusively through the new Rural Communities Policy Unit (RCPU), and will have a highly focused work programme complementary to that of the new unit and the wider Defra.

Jonathan Carling, currently Head of North East Research and Information Partnership at One North East, has been appointed the Chief Executive of the streamlined Commission for Rural Communities. He will be taking up his post on 1 April 2011.
Chairman of the CRC Dr Stuart Burgess said: "I am delighted with Jonathan Carling’s appointment as our Chief Executive. Jonathan brings a great deal of experience from his background in the public sector and his knowledge and experience will be invaluable as we seek to continue to help shape the rural policy agenda across government."

Jonathan Carling said: "I am looking forward to joining the CRC, and helping build on the considerable work to date and evidence base to ensure rural communities’ needs are reflected in policies nationally, regionally and locally. I particularly welcome the opportunity to help the organisation develop new ways of working and to work with the Chairman and the Commissioners; and to utilise their considerable skills and knowledge to continue to represent the needs of rural communities across government."
The Commission has agreed that it will continue to act as critical friend to Defra, and will have a modest work programme complementary to that of the RCPU. The Commission has agreed to work on two specific priority areas in 2011-12:

• a review of the position of young people and opportunities for training and employment. Specifically the Commission will review the position of NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) in rural areas and young people’s access to these opportunities.

• to consider the implications of living in isolation in rural areas − the depth and nature of the issue, the concerns and potential solutions.
In addition to these priorities, a number of externally focused reference groups will act as steering groups or advisory boards and provide peer review and help shape the research programme of the RCPU. The reference groups will also represent the CRC on these topics in public events and by listening to and reflecting back the issues and solutions rural communities are dealing with.

The CRC was established to promote awareness of rural needs amongst decision makers across and beyond government. In June 2010, the Secretary of State announced that the CRC was to be abolished and that Defra’s internal rural policy capacity was to be expanded to create a Rural Communities Policy Unit. The first stage of this transition was completed on 31 March 2011. By this time, the CRC had significantly reduced its staffing levels and the scale of its operation, some of its work and staff having transferred into the new unit.

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