The votes are in – what might a Labour government mean for our cultural and creative industries?
Whether you voted for them or not, change is in the air. Our new government has the potential to impact everything from creative funding to AI development over the next five years.
Focus on the Creative Industries hasn’t been central to most party manifestos. Nevertheless, there are significant pledges to consider. Labour’s plan for Arts, Culture, and the Creative Industries emphasises economic growth, job creation, and broadening access to arts and culture.
Key Initiatives Include:
• Creative Skills: Reform the Apprenticeships Levy, and introduce a flexible Growth and Skills Levy, with Skills England ensuring qualifications provide value for money.
• Creative Businesses: Balance AI innovation with creator protection, ensure the self-employed and small businesses are paid on time, and make it easier for UK artists to go on tour.
• Creative Institutions: Support the BBC and public service broadcasters, set 10 year budgets for key R&D institutions, review Arts Council England, and support university spinouts.
• Access to the Arts: Commission a curriculum review and establish a National Music Education Network.
There are strengths to Labour’s promise, such as a renewed focus on creative subjects in schools and improved access to capital for small businesses. However, it remains to be seen if these initiatives offer the sustainable growth, and increase in diversity needed for the UK’s creative sector to reach it’s full potential (Creative UK Manifesto).
"This moment of change for the UK is an opportunity to maximise our growth and resilience if driven by political imagination and ingenuity. We face huge challenges that we need creativity to overcome, since innovation and collaboration are critical to prosperity, health and our place in the world. It’s artists and creatives who imagine a better future for us all.”
- Caroline Norbury, Chief Executive of Creative UK
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