Culture strategy for Scotland: action plan - easy read

Chapter 2 – keeping culture strong

• continue to make culture and heritage organisations part of Scotland as a Leading Fair Work Nation by 2025

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

• work to increase diversity in the sector

Diversity means have a mix of different kinds of people

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

Board members look at the work an organisation is doing and check it is working well.

A code of practice is a set of rules that explain how people should behave when they are at work.

Make sure that board members of national culture and heritage public bodies are paid fairly.

• develop and start a long-term plan for skills development in the Culture Sector and creative industries

• work to deal with racism by changing stories about slavery that have been hidden or where we have not told the full story

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.

Slavery was when a person was owned by another person and forced to work for them in terrible conditions without protecting their rights.

• publish our International Culture Strategy

• tell more people about the ways culture affects our economy

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

• creative placemaking – where creative people and organisations work with communities on planning, designing and looking after public spaces