Creative Industries Leadership Group

Overview

The Creative Industries Advisory Group (CIAG) was established in January 2017 to advise Scottish Ministers on how to support, grow and realise the potential of Scotland's creative industries sector, one of the six Scotland’s growth sectors in which Scotland has a distinct comparative advantage, and ensure that the sector can fully support our economy, with fair work at its heart, economic growth, net zero targets and wellbeing.

Since that time the landscape in which the creative industries work has changed considerably, bringing significant disruption but also opportunities for the sector. This makes it even more important for the creative industries to come together as a sector, articulate its needs, realise its potential and provide advice to Ministers. This includes, but is not restricted to, the following areas: skills, training opportunities, business models and workplace innovation, the relationship between industry and education, fair work practices, business creation, international trade, place, and the transition to net zero.

The strengthened remit of the group is reflected in the change of its name to the Creative Industries Leadership Group (CILG).

Remit

The purpose of the Creative Industries Leadership Group is to:

provide a forum enabling the sub-sectors across the creative industries to engage with each other and with the Scottish Government in an effective and collaborative way to discuss and agree issues of strategic relevance to the whole industry, and to identify the support is required to help the creative industries sector in Scotland to meet its ambitions and reach its full potential
provide the creative industries with a collective voice and a higher profile: (1) the strategic importance of the creative industries to Scotland’s economy; and (2) how and in what ways the creative industries can fully support our economy, with fair work at its heart, economic growth, and wellbeing
identify and instigate opportunities to boost the growth and competitiveness of the creative industries, with the Scottish Government providing support, including partnership support, where appropriate
in light of the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, consider and advise on ways of promoting the recovery and further development of the creative industries
provide horizon scanning and strategic insights into new developments and initiatives affecting the creative industries
respond to priorities for the creative industries set out by the Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Fair Work and Culture, and other Ministers, to support, grow and realise the potential the sector
enhance collaboration between the creative industries, the public sector and other stakeholders, including trade bodies and membership organisations, to enable creative ideas, creative people and creative businesses to emerge, develop and flourish. This includes engaging with representative creative industry groups (for example, SCAN, Publishing Scotland, Craft Scotland, PACT and TV Working Group) to help build cohesion in the wider creative industries sector and support collective positions and contribute to global trends
engage at a strategic level with other groups in the public sector landscape, to influence and shape long-term thinking
contribute to the work of the National Partnership on Culture on agreed priorities for the culture sector and cultural renewal in Scotland with a particular focus on the creative industries

Members

Scottish Government:

Neil Gray, Minister for Culture, Europe & International Development