A Culture Strategy for Scotland: Action Plan
A Culture Strategy for Scotland was published in 2020 and its vision and values remain important. This action plan provides detail on how we will deliver the ambitions of Culture Strategy.
Summary of Actions
Chapter 1 – overview actions: Resilience
R1: Ensure effective ongoing engagement with the sector and maximise impact of existing public sector support.
R2: Seek ways to review pressure on outgoings and activities.
R3: Explore and develop alternative and additional income streams.
R4: Collaboration for effectiveness and impact.
R5: Advocacy effort within national and local government to ensure the value of culture is understood and maximised.
Chapter 2 – Strengthening Culture
S1: Continue to make the Culture and Heritage Sectors part of Scotland as a Leading Fair Work Nation by 2025.
S2: Develop and implement a long-term strategic approach to making improvements to the data landscape for culture, working closely with expert partners.
S3: Work in partnership to increase diversity in the sector, sharing new approaches and codes of practice that ensure skills development and board membership have diversity at their core, including helping recruitment diversity by introducing appropriate remuneration for board members of national culture and heritage public bodies.
S4: Develop and implement a long-term strategic approach to skills development in the Culture Sector and creative industries.
S5: Work to tackle modern-day racism by reinterpreting aspects of our hidden or contested heritage.
S6: Publish our International Culture Strategy.
S7: Champion the economic impact of culture, in particular within the context of community wealth building and creative placemaking.
Chapter 3 – Transforming through Culture
T1: Collaborate to realise the transformational power of culture in achieving a broad range of policy outcomes by developing cross-Government policy compacts, embedding culture at the centre of policy-making.
T2: Harness the transformational power of culture to deliver on climate change priorities.
T3: Scope the creation of another Youth Arts Strategy
T4: Foster greater collaboration between the Culture and Education Sectors.
T5: Strengthen cross-Scottish Government joint working on culture and health and wellbeing policy development and delivery.
Chapter 4 – Empowering through Culture
E1: Support libraries to deliver free of charge services in the heart of communities across Scotland.
E2: Bring together local authorities, national and cultural organisations, via a Local and National Delivery Group, to identify, and commit to working together towards shared culture outcomes across Scotland, in line with the aims from the Ministerial meetings with Culture Conveners and the Culture Partners group.
E3: Understand local authority support for culture, in the context of the impact of, and recovery from, the Covid pandemic, to identify more effective models of collaboration, and delivery utilising data and knowledge from successful programmes.
E4: Amplify the important role community-based cultural assets such as libraries, museums and galleries can play in strengthening and empowering communities, in line with the themes of existing and upcoming strategies.
E5: Continue the series of the joint meeting of the Culture Conveners and Scottish Government.
E6: Develop a joint working agreement for Culture between the Convention Of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Government.
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