This is the list of government actions taken from The Culture White Paper.
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- We will establish a new cultural citizens programme, with the support of Lottery distributors, to create new cultural opportunities for thousands of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- We will work with the RSA to encourage schools to use the pupil premium to promote cultural education as a means of raising the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils.
- We will use the Pupil Premium Awards to highlight the benefits of cultural education for disadvantaged pupils.
1.2 There should be better access to skills development and clearer pathways for talent, where it emerges
- We will work with Arts Council England to understand the barriers that prevent people from particularly under-represented groups becoming professionals in the arts.
- We will ask Arts Council England and Historic England to develop strategies that support cultural organisations to make best use of apprenticeships and help with skills development and career choices.
- We will ask Arts Council England, Historic England and the national museums and galleries to develop and share strategies for tackling the lack of diversity in leadership across the cultural sectors and to provide regular reports on what has been achieved.
- We will examine the role of networks to make pathways into the cultural sectors easier for people from black and minority ethnic groups and for disabled people.
- We will ask the heritage sector to build on the foundations of successful programmes such as the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Young Roots programme to create more opportunities for young people outside formal education settings to enjoy and learn about heritage or to lead heritage social action.
2.1 We will promote the role that culture has in building stronger and healthier communities and boosting economic growth
- We will showcase the power of culture to transform communities, through UK City of Culture, the Great Exhibition of the North and the Discover England f
- We will hold a competition in 2017 to find the next UK City of Culture for 2021, and we will commence the process to find a European Capital of Culture for 2023.
- We will work with Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and other partners to develop and promote the benefits of culture for good health, wellbeing and safer communities.
2.2 Greater local and national partnerships are necessary to develop the role of culture in place-making. We will require national institutions to back
local vision
- We will identify experienced, national cultural leaders to work with those developing, or considering developing, new cultural partnerships.
- We will work with National Lottery distributors and national cultural organisations to support communities to realise their local cultural vision, through a new Great Place scheme.
2.3 Our historic built environment is a unique asset and local communities will be supported to make the most of the buildings they cherish
- We will support Historic England to establish new Heritage Action Zones.
- We will continue to support the heritage sector to advise local communities on how they can make best use of their historic buildings.
- We will encourage local authorities and property owners to make more empty spaces and buildings available for cultural activities on a temporary basis and encourage them to consider cultural elements, such as artists’ studios, when planning new developments.
- We will provide £20 million across 2016-17 and 2017-18 to extend the First World War Centenary cathedral repairs fund and establish a review to examine how church buildings and cathedrals in England can become more financially sustainable.
2.4 Technology is expanding the ways in which we make and experience culture; the digital dimension is becoming a ‘place’ in itself
- We will commission a report on the key issues to be addressed to make the UK one of the world’s leading countries for digitised public collections content.
- We will ask Historic England to work with local authorities to enhance and rationalise national and local heritage records over the next ten years, so that communities and developers have easy access to historic environment records.
3.1 By promoting the UK through our cultural exports we will enhance our global reputation and soft power
- We will promote a global cultural export programme with UKTI to open up new markets; and ensure that the cultural sectors are able to participate in UKTI’s High Value Opportunity (HVO) programme.
- We will ask our public bodies to ensure that funding helps to develop the capacity of the cultural sectors to pursue new opportunities through international exchange, partnerships, enterprise and innovation.
- We will ask Historic England to work with other heritage organisations to develop the heritage sector’s international commercial offer.
3.2 The GREAT campaign will draw on culture to promote ‘brand Britain’ and will enhance our cultural offer to visitors by bringing us the best the world has to offer
- We will work with the British Council and the cultural sectors to support cultural cooperation with all countries, champion the artist’s right to roam and help make sure that culture continues to transcend political and geographical boundaries.
- We will work with the GREAT Britain campaign partners, the British Council and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to support the UK’s cultural sectors to use Shakespeare’s inspiring works and legacy to present the best of contemporary British culture to the world and help VSO use the anniversary to raise funds to support children’s literacy around the world.
- We will celebrate seasons of culture with India, the Republic of Korea and the United Arab Emirates in 2017.
- We will extend international aid support to the protection of cultural heritage and antiquities and help countries to recover from acts of cultural destruction through a new £30 million cultural protection fund.
- We will ratify the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols, subject to legislation.
- We will share our expertise in cultural development and protection with our partners around the world, particularly those in developing countries and countries experiencing or emerging from conflict.
## 4.1 The government will continue to invest in our growing cultural sectors
- We will hold a formal consultation on a new tax relief for museums and galleries to be introduced in April 2017.
- We will consider changes to the Gift Aid donor benefit rules, in the light of responses to the current consultation.
- We will increase the amount of investment eligible for Social Investment Tax Relief, subject to State Aid clearance.
4.2 Government support to help cultural organisations develop more mixed funding models makes a demonstrable difference
- We will invest a further £2 million in the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund, which will be matched by £2 million from the Wolfson Foundation.
- We will establish a crowdfunding pilot scheme, to be delivered jointly with Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, to provide match-funding for cultural organisations which raise funding by this means.
- We will establish a new virtual Commercial Academy for Culture to support the extension of commercial expertise across the cultural sectors.
- We will work with Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and other partners to support cultural organisations to diversify their funding, including exploring non-grant sources of income and innovative means of fundraising.
- We will work with Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and other partners to rejuvenate the approach to stimulating interest from key donor groups in developing relationships with cultural organisations, including identifying ways to improve the cultural sectors’ corporate engagement.
- We will carry out tailored reviews of Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund during 2016/17.
- We will carry out a review of museums in England.