Cultural review: implementation overview
Executive priorities:
- Ensure that cultural talent is recognised and nurtured, and that excellence is developed as a national resource
- Promote the best of Scotland's rich cultural treasure store
- Make the best of the nation's performing activity available to be accessed right across the country
Programmes
1) Working with SAC and Scottish Screen to establish Creative Scotland, and its new remit
2) Improving the focus, efficiency and impact of the national collections
3) Ensuring the National Companies deliver excellence across Scotland
4) Building local cultural entitlements: planned, high quality local provision
5) Working to recognise excellence in local collections of national significance
6) Executive initiatives on culture and utilising the impact of culture across the Executive
Programme 1: Working with SAC and Scottish Screen to establish Creative Scotland and its new remit
Project | Delivery partners | Tasks |
1a. Joint working plan between SAC and SS | Arts Council Scottish Screen SE Public Bodies unit | Convene SAC / SS working group, agree remit Agree actions for joint working |
1b. Statutory basis and remit | Arts Council Scottish Screen SE Public Bodies unit SE Finance | Consultation Exec Public Bodies Div and SAC / SS Policy clearance from Ministers Instructions for Executive lawyers and Counsel Draft clauses cleared |
1c. The 'escalator model' to identify excellence | SEED SAC LTS CoSLA VOCAL Sector Skills Councils Careers Scotland | Consult with specialist institutions (e.g. RSAMD) Consider evolution of cultural co-ordinators Consider evolution of Youth Music Initiative Review Bookstart |
1d. Creative individuals recognition scheme | SAC SS | Work with SAC to develop proposals for Academy / bursary scheme |
1e. Arts and business sponsorship scheme | SAC Arts and Business | Transfer funds to SAC / Arts and Business |
Programme 2: Improving the focus, efficiency and impact of the national collections
Project | Delivery Partners | Tasks |
2a. National Collections' common functions | National Collections | Convene working group to examine methods of joint working that enhance exposure of collections - integrating action on PFMR review Advise Ministers about effectiveness of proposals |
2b. Governance of national collections (Inc NAS and RCAHMS). | National Collections | Consultation and options appraisal Policy clearance Instructions to lawyers |
2c. Screen Archive
2d. Collections' and built heritage forum
| Scottish Screen NLS National Collections | Transfer responsibility from SS to NLS
Consider utility of forum
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2e. Monitor HS and NTS | HS | Engagement with efficiency and common services agenda |
Programme 3: Ensuring the National Companies deliver excellence across Scotland
Project | Delivery partners | Tasks |
3a. Transfer funding responsibility to SEED | Companies SAC | Identify staff necessary and DRC implications Consider staffing options |
3b. New 'national' companies | SAC | Consider means of recognising new companies |
3c. Future funding contracts and governance | National Theatre SAC Companies | Devise governance National Theatre Devise funding contracts and governance |
3d. National companies common functions | Companies | Review |
Programme 4: Building local cultural entitlements: planned, high quality local provision
Project | Delivery Partners | Tasks |
4a. Statutory basis for local entitlements and cultural planning | CoSLA VOCAL SOLACE SAC ADES | Consultation and development Policy clearance Policy instructions Instructions to lawyers |
4b. Guidance, best practice examples and self evaluation tool for local cultural planning and entitlements for local authorities | CoSLA VOCAL SAC SOLACE ADES | Convene steering group including remit Second LA officer to develop guidance |
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4c. Pathfinders to explore local cultural entitlements
4d. National organisations contribute to local entitlements
4e. Minimum sector standards (including museum and architecture policy statement)
| CoSLA VOCAL SAC SOLACE ADES
National Organisations (including companies & collections)
SAC/SS/Nat Orgs/SMC/SLIC/SEED/A&DS
| Steering group at 4b to consider proposals and incentives (as well as CPD) Select and determine allocations for pathfinders - make payments
Role and contribution will be determined in light of emerging local authority guidance. Bodies will be encouraged to consider their contributions.
National agencies to begin development
Museums/libraries national standards Architecture policy statement |
Programme 5: Working to recognise excellence in local collections of national significance
Project | Delivery partners | Tasks |
5a. SMC | SMC | Consider relocation proposals Consider cost and staffing implications of review Consider funding and relocation of industrial museums |
5b. Significance recognition grant scheme for non-national museums. | SMC | Consider whether scheme should be SMC / SE administered Invite applications and implement |
5c. Public libraries improvement scheme | SLIC | Consider whether scheme should be SLIC / SE administered Invite applications |
5d. Archives improvement scheme | NAS | Consider equivalent improvement scheme |
Programme 6: Executive initiatives to expand cultural access and utilising the impact of culture across the Scottish Executive
Project | Delivery Partners | Tasks |
6a. Culture as a policy tool - communication with SE Departments and Ministers | SE | Bilateral Minister / officials' meetings |
6b. Co-ordination of international work | SE & agencies SAC | Consider international forum |
6c. National Box Office | Visit Scotland SAC | Initiate scoping work |
6d. Digitisation | | Develop approach to dissemination of digital cultural content |
6f. Schools curriculum and access to schools | SEED LTS CoSLA SAC ADES | Contribute to new version of curriculum New actions to promote access |
6g. Enterprise advice for creative industries | SEETLLD ScotEnt HIE SAC SS | Convene working group to consider optimum delivery |
6h. Tourism strategy | | Integrate culture into strategy |
6i. National Languages strategy | | Publish and action strategy |