Culture strategy for Scotland: action plan - easy read
An easy to read translation of the action plan supporting the culture strategy for Scotland.
Chapter 2 – keeping culture strong
- continue to make culture and heritage organisations part of Scotland as a Leading Fair Work Nation by 2025
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Fair Work means employers treat workers fairly and pay a fair wage.
- work with expert partners to make a long-term plan to have better data – facts, figures and information – about culture
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- work to increase diversity in the sector
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Diversity means have a mix of different kinds of people
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Share new ways of working and codes of practice that make sure diversity is at the centre of:
- the way we develop the skills of our staff
- how we decide who will be Board members
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Board members look at the work an organisation is doing and check it is working well.
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A code of practice is a set of rules that explain how people should behave when they are at work.
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Make sure that board members of national culture and heritage public bodies are paid fairly.
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- develop and start a long-term plan for skills development in the Culture Sector and creative industries
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- work to deal with racism by changing stories about slavery that have been hidden or where we have not told the full story
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Racism is when a person or group is treated unfairly because of their ethnic group.
People from an ethnic group might have the same language, culture or religion.
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Slavery was when a person was owned by another person and forced to work for them in terrible conditions without protecting their rights.
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- publish our International Culture Strategy
- tell more people about the ways culture affects our economy
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Our economy is how the country produces and uses goods, services and money.
We want to look particularly at:
- community wealth building – when organisations use the powers they have, including the money they can spend, to support local economies
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- creative placemaking – where creative people and organisations work with communities on planning, designing and looking after public spaces
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