#arts-council-england

#arts-council-england

"My report provides a clear path, with a range of new initiatives that cover everything from new funding models to fundamental systems reform, that will enable ACE to strengthen its key, positive role in sustaining a world-class creative sector for the future," Hodge says in a statement. In the wake of various culture wars over the past 15 years, Hodge stresses that "the government must maintain and strengthen the arm's length principle at all levels of government to ensure that arts funding is protected from politicisation".

I observe the London-centricity in our media... regional arts leaders... don't get the half-page columns in our national newspapers as easily as the people who are London based.