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Next year, employer organisation Creative and Cultural Skills will produce a comprehensive skills strategy, as the first stage of a new programme of support delivering new creative apprenticeships, better careers support for newcomers and a new management and leadership programme.
Speaking at the 2005 Creative Clusters conference in Belfast, CCS Chief Executive Tom Bewick said: “The creative and cultural industries are under-managed, under-capitalised and often under stress. Despite the massive growth in jobs in recent years talent is still being held back by the lack of a coherent and effective support infrastructure for supporting creativity. Government has rightly identified the creative industries as a major source of future prosperity in both the economic and cultural sphere. But the reality for cultural workers on the ground is that skills support for the creative industries is ad-hoc and piecemeal. There is a lack of coherent vision for either the individual artistic or organisational needs of the sector going forward. Instead there is a multiplicity of quangos and agencies operating in funding silos rather than joining up resources across functional boundaries.” Representing the skills needs of advertisers, designers, galleries, museums, musicians, theatres, craft workers and the arts, CCS feels it is well placed to develop a joined-up approach for commercial and subsidised sectors. According to the 1999 Demos publication The Creative age,...
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