ACE scraps 10-year programme after Hodge recommendation
Arts Council England is abandoning its ten-year Let’s Create strategy halfway through in accordance with recommendations in the Hodge Report resulting from her DCMS commissioned independent review of ACE.
Instead the Arts Council has announced a new Strategic Framework which switches emphasis from individual opportunity back on excellence.
The new framework is described as “a practical, interim guide” with three objectives: to support excellence, deliver for everyone and “reach everywhere”. The strategy will be in place while ACE develops a new programme, “to make good, impactfiul funding decisions at a time when our resources are finite, to allow those we partner with to work with us easily, and to show those we invest in how and why we make the choices we make”.
It aims to back innovation, increase opportunities from those form al backgrounds, including disabled people, and balancing investment more evenly. Abandoning Let’s a Create was one of Hodge’s priorities in her report, published last December. The new framework is designed to make applications for funding simpler and responses to bids prompt with more transparency.
"We’re committed to supporting artists, organisations, museums and libraries to create excellent work for everybody everywhere across England” said Darren Henley, ACE’s CEO. “Our new strategic framework is the next stage in helping us make sure that this happens."
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/our-strategy