Workforce development for the Cultural Sector Skin, ACE Dance and Music Photo: Brian Slater 04/07/2011 Laura Gander-Howe Director of Learning Arts Council England
Dec 17, 2015
Workforce development for the Cultural Sector
Skin, ACE Dance and MusicPhoto: Brian Slater
04/07/2011Laura Gander-HoweDirector of LearningArts Council England
Arts Council England
•Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enriching people’s lives
•Currently focused on 6 artforms
•Investing £450m treasure and £150m national lottery
Achieving great art for everyone
10 year vision with 5 goals
Goal 1: Talent and artistic excellence are thriving and celebrated
Goal 2: More people experience and are inspired by the arts
Goal 3: The arts are sustainable, resilient and innovative
Goal 4: The arts leadership and workforce are diverse and highly skilled
Goal 5: Every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts
Wider cultural footprint
Work to integrate Museum and Library functions:
•Museum and Library sector development and improvement
•Renaissance
•Cultural Property and collections functions
•London 2012 – stories of the World
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•Transfer - October 2011
•ACE’s ambition to achieve closer collaboration between arts, museum and libraries
•Increase leverage
•Improve quality of services and increase impact
Work in progress
•An evolving and emerging picture
•Need to prioritise and sequence integration and development
•Work to maximise new opportunities of closer alignment through a wider cultural footprint
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Current focus:
•Future Renaissance
•Integration of staff
•Work around accreditation, designation, national security advice•l section details can appear here.
Adjusting Achieving Great Arts for everyone
•Companion piece, reflecting a new, wider cultural footprint
•Focus on museums and libraries
•Identify the benefits and opportunities for ACE and partners in having a role across arts and culture
Goal 4
The arts leadership and workforce are diverse and highly skilled
Priority 1 - Building a network of arts leaders who value sharing their knowledge and skills, for the benefit of the arts and civil society
Priority 2 -Creating equal opportunities to enter the arts workforce
Emerging policy development – can extend across wider cultural footprint
Arts Council England’s approach
The Creative Case for Diversity –
•Focus partnerships
•National Skills Academy
•Sector Skills Councils
•National Portfolio Organisations
•Further and Higher Education
•Government: DCMS, BIS, DfE
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•Awarding bodies
•Apprenticeships
•Code of conduct for internships
•Role of Further Education
•Alternative routes to HE
•IAG
•Kite mark for practitioners
Joint exploration of:
•Renewed commitment to leadership
•Explore what constitutes excellent cultural leadership
•Governance
•Safeguard expertise and development of a wider range of skills
•Champion a collective approach to diversity
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Build on and learn from:
•Cultural Leadership programme
•Renaissance
•Sector Skills Council evidence
Build policy work around Goal 4
•Identify skills needs: specialist, IT, business
•Identify generic and bespoke needs
•Maximise role of partners
•Economies of scales
•Clarity and clear opportunities
•Leverage of BIS resources to support workforce development needs