🧭 The English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill will shape local powers for a generation BUT #culture #creativity & #heritage are barely mentioned! We’ve submitted evidence + amendments to MHCLG to change that Read more 👉 www.culturecommons.uk/news/strengt...

Major news in education! #Arts #culture & #creativity will go back into the heart of the national curriculum in England 🙌 The UK Gov’s @departmentforedu.bsky.social has confirmed it will take forward major reforms proposed by Professor Becky Francis review www.culturecommons.uk/news/the-art...

🧭 The English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill will shape local powers for a generation BUT #culture #creativity & #heritage are barely mentioned! We’ve submitted evidence + amendments to MHCLG to change that Read more 👉 www.culturecommons.uk/news/strengt...

Important publication! Wonderful to see culture creative & heritage infrastructures embedded in here in-line with @culturecommons.bsky.social recommendations! Thanks to Diane and the whole Taskforce for the detailed work on this

The UK Gov’s new ‘Pride in Place’ strategy is now a flagship policy £billions for neighbourhood renewal powers for communities #culture + #heritage in scope But will Neighbourhood Boards see our sectors as key enablers or add ons? We dig into the details 👉 www.culturecommons.uk/news/pride-i...

Creative health programmes are helping to improve the UK's health & wellbeing, providing new work opportunities for creatives & saving the NHS money. Read our new report, from the CIC & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/download-hub/health-wellbeing-forum-report

Last week, Director @trevormacf.bsky.social was hosted in #Riga by Latvia’s Minister for Culture, Agnese Lāce The discussion explored cultural #data, #devolution, inter-cultural #dialogue, and the future of #culturalrelations between the #UK and #Baltic states at a time of global uncertainty

We’re been working with the UK Government on the emergent Local Government Outcomes Framework @trevormacf.bsky.social has been advocating for the #creative #cultural & #heritage sectors to be well positioned in the key indicators More here👇 www.culturecommons.uk/news/local-g...

Thank you to First Minister of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnswinney.bsky.social for the invitation to #Edinburgh today for his statement on #culture & the #creative industries Proud @culturecommons.bsky.social helped the National Performing Companies of Scotland secure a significant uplift in a recent gov budget

Minister @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social endorses our recommendation to embed ‘cultural infrastructure’ into New Towns masterplanning www.culturecommons.uk/news/minster...

The UK Government has tabled a new Bill on English #devolution in @ukparliament.parliament.uk We’ve been monitoring devo closely since we launched a four nations open #policy development programme w/ 30 partners Initial headlines w/ analysis to follow👇 www.culturecommons.uk/news/new-dra...

Working with The Audience Agency and supported by Research England, we have been leading a project to develop a Cultural Indicator Suite, a new framework that helps to communicate the holistic everyday cultural vitality of the places we live. Read more 👇 www.culturalvalue.org.uk/understandin...

Looking good! Can testify wholeheartedly how brilliant Culture Commons are as policy partners

We’re still an independent and not for profit think & do tank dedicated to the UK’s #creative #cultural and #heritage ecosystem… …we’ve just had a little refresh! We’ve brightened things up and made our projects, publications and services more accessible. www.culturecommons.uk

The UK Government have published the Sector Plan today. It sets out actions until 2035 and will play an important role in guiding policy for the coming years. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68586c...

Game-changing investment in social housing Angela Rayner + Chancellor will have worked v hard to secure this Cultural infrastructure can now empower communities to turn these new houses into homes 👀ing to DCMS & MHCLG to build joint investment progs to make it so! @culturecommons.bsky.social

A nice policy briefing here from @natcen.bsky.social team on attitudes to #devolution in Sussex Some of the sentiments chime with findings we made @culturecommons.bsky.social as part of a major 4 nations open policy development programme examining ‘cultural devolution’ devolution.culturecommons.uk

We've published a new Discussion Paper. 📘 ’Culture-led capital projects: catalysing local decision making in place' It explores how #re-developing #heritage buildings can boost culture-led #regeneration and bring the public into decision making processes www.culturecommons.uk/publications... 1/2

A significant day for #Devolution Greater Manchester & the West Midlands now have decision making powers over circa £1bn per year @culturecommons.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/p...

The #devolution revolution is ramping up! If you're thinking about how it might impact on the #creative #cultural and #heritage sectors, this digital #policy portal is for you. We've spent a year researching & developing policy to help make the most of it: 💻 devolution.culturecommons.uk 👈

We're calling on #UK #Government to include #cultural #infrastructure in masterplans for New Towns! The Ministry of #Housing, #Communities & #LocalGovernment will be building 1.5m new homes We want people moving in to have the assets they need to live their best lives devolution.culturecommons.uk