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Next Steps
Timescales - Milestones
This section lists the steps (and supporting policies) that are planned to implement and promote the Executive's decisions on the cultural review, discussed in the paper.
In the 6 months to end-June 2006:
- The Executive will take forward its plans for new policy that requires legislation, starting to prepare a draft Parliamentary Bill that includes a legal framework for delivering rights and entitlements, and establishing "Creative Scotland", the new cultural development agency
- The Executive will act to maximise the presentation of the National Collections, and to secure arrangements for shared education and outreach activity, and efficiencies through combined arrangements for common services - launching a joint review of the National Institutions with a steering group, to include representatives of the collections bodies
- The Executive will establish a group including the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, to develop guidance for local authorities on cultural planning, good practice, and ways to develop and monitor local entitlements within Community Planning. The group will also support initiatives and pilots to deliver entitlements, and explore possible approaches to incentivise local provision
- Proposals for a National Box Office will be scoped by the Executive and its national cultural and tourism agencies
- The Executive will pursue its plans for a recognition scheme for Scotland's creative sector, with assistance from the Scottish Arts Council
- The Executive will provide new funding over the next two years for the launch of the museums' recognition scheme for non-national museums, and - in addition to that already announced - to help public libraries improve their service standards and to promote co-operation
- The Executive and the Scottish Arts Council will identify Scottish Arts Council staff to transfer to the Executive's unit that will fund the national performing companies - in terms of the relevant employment protection arrangements in force
- The Executive will explore the most effective and efficient solution for providing support from national funds to
- non-national museums containing collections of truly national significance, in discussion with the Scottish Museums Council
- The Executive will start to identify the best way to give the creative industries the enterprise advice they require to develop - ensuring targeted input from the enterprise sector and, with its agencies, examining pilot proposals to develop sector skills through new applications of the Visual Arts Fellowships and Ideasmart programmes - working as appropriate with the new Sector Skills Council and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
- The Executive will start to explore how best to grow and develop the popular Bookstart programme run by the Scottish Book Trust
- The Executive will provide funding over the next two years to enable a new match-funding scheme proposed by Arts and Business to incentivise private sector sponsorship
- Early work will be carried out, in creating "A Curriculum for Excellence", to ensure that learning and teaching across the whole curriculum can enable young people to become 'Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens and Effective Contributors'; within this, the Executive will aim to ensure that links to culture and creativity are made at all stages
- The Executive will publish a Tourism Framework for Change, setting out strategy and actions on tourism for 2005-10, including links between culture and the ambition to grow tourism by 50% over the next decade
- The Executive will start to develop practical steps to take forward its proposed 'escalator' of developing cultural talent, ensuring effective links at each stage - pre-school delivery, activity in schools, a new focus for further and higher educational institutions, and appropriate roles for the national agencies
- Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland will discuss new ways of managing their respective estates in a more joined-up manner, increasing benefits to visitors and members. Historic Scotland will also work with an external stakeholder advisory group, to oversee the audit of Scotland's historic environment; and will take forward its plans for updating historic environment policies, including the launch of a new, updated Scottish Historic Environment Policy series (this action will run throughout the period of its current Corporate Plan - to 2008)
Beyond June 2006 -
- Prior to legislation, the Executive will develop a detailed implementation plan for the merger of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen
- The Executive, assisted by the Scottish Arts Council, will determine appropriate governance structures for the national performing arts companies; develop criteria redefining them and the national youth companies; draw up a timetable for introduction; and bodies meeting the new criteria will be funded direct by the Executive
- The Executive will aim to publish a draft Culture Bill for consultation, by the end of 2006
- The Executive will develop, in consultation, and launch a National Languages Strategy, to celebrate and promote the rich diversity of languages spoken in Scotland
- The Executive will monitor ongoing projects delivering cultural entitlements, and their evaluation, such as the Cultural Pledge for young people, being introduced by The Highland Council as part of the legacy programme for Scotland's Year of Highland Culture in 2007. The Executive will offer financial assistance towards these projects where appropriate
- The Executive will develop and launch a new architecture policy statement, with a strengthened role to influence the quality of the built environment, design and the creative industries
- The Executive will discuss with the relevant bodies the idea of setting up a forum that looks at sharing good practice between the collections bodies and other leading cultural and built heritage interests
- The Executive will develop a new strategic approach for the electronic delivery of cultural provision, as a 'pathfinder' in its overarching digitisation strategy
- The Executive and its agencies will promote community access to schools' arts and sports facilities, identifying opportunities to ensure that investment in the school estate enhances these facilities and community access to them, and ensuring that the developing Youthwork Strategy recognises the importance of wider access to cultural facilities within schools
From 2007 -
- After 2007, the Executive plans to take forward its proposals for culture legislation
- Creative Scotland, the new agency will lead the development of national standards, guidance and strategies to help cultural delivery organisations, including local authorities, discharge their responsibilities in key policy areas such as access, entitlements, diversity and developing the contributions of the private and voluntary sectors. The National Collections bodies which are part of the new infrastructure will draft national standards for their respective sectors, in consultation, and as with the national performing arts companies, will contribute to developing entitlements
- Creative Scotland will seek to enhance the role of Scottish literature and publishing, encompassing both Gaelic and Scots projects, and linking to the range of bodies that currently act as national resources in this area
- The Executive will deliver its planned backing for Scotland's Year of Highland Culture in 2007 and the biennial 6 Cities Festival of Design
- The Executive will promote awareness of Scottish literature, heritage and a vast array of cultural riches though the programme to mark Scotland's Year of Homecoming in 2009, with a national celebration of the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns's birth
- The Executive will liaise with the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and relevant Whitehall Departments on the delivery of exciting arts and sporting programmes, and new volunteering opportunities, arising in connection with the London Olympics in 2012. Our support for Glasgow's bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games seeks to deliver more of the same, in a major boost for the promotion of Scotland, its culture and sport
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