Goal 4: The arts leadership and workforce are diverse and highly skilled
Why this goal?
Unless the arts workforce is diverse and highly skilled it will not reach its potential. For our arts leaders to play an active role at the heart of civil society, they need to be diverse and highly skilled. Diversity in the workforce is important to fostering diverse arts practice; it is also important to ensuring that artists and arts organisations can understand and reflect the values of their local communities. Likewise, the ongoing professional development of the sector is important to its resilience during times of change. In both areas, there remain challenges to address. A long-term approach is needed.
What will we do?
- we will promote equality within the arts, focusing in particular on creating equal opportunities to enter the arts workforce
- we will encourage skills development, collaborative working and knowledge sharing, including enabling the arts to realise the potential of technological change
- we will seek to ensure that mainstream funding for learning and skills development supports the training needs of the arts
- we will renew our commitment to leadership development in the arts, working with a network of arts leaders to share knowledge and skills, while promoting best practice in the governance of arts organisations
What will success look like?
- more arts leaders are regarded as world class, renowned for excellence and playing an active role at the heart of civil and national life
- the arts leadership and workforce will reflect the diversity of society
- professional development is regarded as essential to the health of the arts
