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Towards a new workforce

An Arts Professional Feature in partnership with Creative and Cultural Skills
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We can’t rebuild if we’re not valued

18 November 2020
Feature

Rishi Sunak said hard hit workforces like the arts may have to retrain to adapt to the new economy. Sara Whybrew counters that the new economy means we must adapt our approach to training.

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Are we measuring competence or class?

15 September 2020
Feature

Apprenticeships could help level the playing field and help those from less advantaged backgrounds enter the arts and cultural sector, but it isn’t happening. Plain old prejudice is getting in the way, says Sara Whybrew.

3 things you can do right now to show you mean ‘Black Lives Matter’

14 July 2020
Feature

The massive surge in support for the Black Lives Matter movement has everyone busily writing diversity policies, but more important still are some fundamental changes that can be actioned right now, says Sara Whybrew.

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Why ‘minimum practice’ isn’t best practice – and isn’t good enough

4 June 2020
Feature

As more and more freelancers refuse to accept unfair agreements and start calling out bad practice by employers, there’s a legal, social and moral case for the whole sector to face up to the issues they’re confronting, says Sarah Shead.

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Supporting freelancers through the crisis – and beyond

6 May 2020
Feature

If organisations don’t get a grip on the difference between being a freelancer and an employee – and give both the rights and benefits they are entitled to – then the workforce they depend upon may not be returning to them after the current crisis has passed, says Sara Whybrew.

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Why hitting diversity targets won’t make your organisation inclusive

9 April 2020
Feature

Inclusion means ensuring workers can fulfil their potential, regardless of their background, identity or circumstance. Is now the time to re-think your organisation’s culture, asks Sara Whybrew.

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Diversity and inclusion: why are we still talking about it?

28 November 2019
Opinion

A reluctance to self-reflect and a tendency to recruit in our own image are at the root of the sector’s failure to employ a workforce that reflects the wider working population, says Sara Whybrew.

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Future workforce, are you out there?

17 October 2019
Feature

Sara Whybrew explains how employers across the creative industries are making sure there’s a new generation of skilled workers heading their way.

Who can afford to do an apprenticeship?

2 October 2019
Feature

Apprenticeship reforms have offered new opportunities for organisations who want to take on a trainee, writes Madeleine Lund. But how realistic are apprenticeships for our most disadvantaged and underserved young people?

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'If you can't find the work, make it': helping young people take the creative initiative

18 July 2019
Feature

Programmes that nurture imagination and ambition can help re-establish the arts as a transformative force, says Robert West.

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Creative & Cultural Skills

 

ArtsProfessional is working in partnership with Creative & Cultural Skills to present a series of articles and research findings to encourage employers and policy makers to address entrenched social inequalities and recruitment processes in our workforce; to promote and support best employment practice for apprenticeships; and to call upon the sector to improve the long-term diversity of our workforce.
 

Creative & Cultural Skills works to create a fair and skilled cultural sector by shaping skills, education and employment best practice. We provoke action and enable learning opportunities that drive change and help to build an inclusive skilled sector.
 

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