Culture Radar was commissioned to deliver this sector-wide Review into Fair Work, leadership, workforce and skills development in 2021.

The Scottish Government’s vision, shared with the Fair Work Convention, is that by 2025, people in Scotland will have a world leading working life where Fair Work drives success, wellbeing and prosperity for individuals, businesses, organisations and society.

A Culture Strategy for Scotland highlights strengthening culture as one of its key ambitions. To achieve this, Scottish Government committed to considering ways to support the cultural workforce, and continue to work on making the culture sector part of Scotland as a Fair Work Nation. One of the actions underpinning this commitment was to undertake a status review of the cultural workforce.

To guide this process Creative Scotland commissioned Culture Radar to consider Fair Work, leadership, workforce, and skills development across the creative and cultural sectors. This work reviews the current status, with baseline findings from which further work and research can develop and recommendations for future action.

The research is supported by a suite of evidence reports including a literature review, survey and sector mapping reports, sector consultation and in-depth interview reports.

The Scottish Government will respond to the Review of Fair Work report. Creative Scotland will continue a programme of work to develop resources supporting individuals and organisations in addressing Fair work in their activity. For other Creative Scotland resources visit here.

Read and download the Review of Fair Work reports here: Full Report and the Executive Summary.

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