Recruitment and Workforce Development Toolkit

The very best artistic and cultural work embraces inclusion and diversity, tapping into the true potential of our nation’s artistic and cultural talent. We want arts and cultural organisations to fully reflect the communities they serve, and have partnered with The Clear Company to develop this toolkit, which will help foster inclusive workplaces and support you in recruiting and retaining diverse talent.

About the Toolkit

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About the Toolkit

Please note: the toolkit isn’t currently available but will be back up and running soon. 

The Toolkit provides best practice downloadable resources, templates and guidance, such as: advertising a job and job descriptions, reasonable adjustments and Access to Work, managing employee and workplace stress, conducting board skills audits and more.

It focuses on four key areas: 

  • Boards and Leadership
  • Recruitment – Attracting
  • Recruitment – Selecting
  • Retention – Workplace Practices

How to register and use the Toolkit

If you are interested in accessing the Recruitment and Workforce Development Toolkit,  you will need to set up an account with The Clear Company.  To set up an account please send your business email address to: ACE@theclearcompany.co.uk 

All arts and cultural organisations are welcome to apply to use this resource. 

Activating your account

  1. Once we receive your email, you will be invited via email by The Clear Company to set up an account
  2. Select the ‘Activate Account’ button or follow the link below it
  3. This will bring you to a screen where you enter the temporary credentials received in the email and then create your own password 
  4. The final step to activating your account is to provide consent



The email from The Clear Company will come from the following address <noreply@clearassured.co.uk> and the subject line will read: Activate your Arts Council Recruiment and Workforce Development Toolkit Clear Assured account – please check your Junk and Spam folders to ensure you have recieved it.

For further information on how to register and use the Toolkit please download the guidance below.

Arts Council Recruitment and Workplace Development Toolkit User Guidance
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Log in to the Toolkit

Once you have activated an account you can log in using your email address and password via the link below

Data protection notice

While using the Arts Council Workforce Development Toolkit your data will be shared with a third party, The Clear Company, who will manage the Toolkit. 

Arts Council England are the data controllers for the information you submit for use of the Toolkit.  The Toolkit is managed by The Clear Company and the data you provide will be shared with The Clear Company, for the purpose of use of the Toolkit only.  To register for the Toolkit you will only need to provide a business email address, but to access all the resources on the Toolkit you will be required to give the name of the organisation you work for, email address and first and surname. The data you provide will used to access the Toolkit and your data will be stored on secure servers in the UK.  The Clear Company will only process data on behalf the Arts Council England under a written data sharing agreement in place, restricting the use of personal information for specified purposes.