I have read the draft bill and come up with a list of Summery Points
Please feel free to add comments or challenge assumptions. I have
simply tried to highlight gaps and uncertainties.

Cultural Planning will need to include
- Training
- Research and Development Support
- Providing Information (collating and Updating)
- Development and Sustainability
- Planning for improvements where there are currently
insufficiencies and gaps.
Improvements – what are we improving on, where are we beginning this
process?
Engaging with cultural workers requires there to be some resources
fro these workers to enable them to take part in the process. Even
volunteers need resources and support frameworks.
Training – career pathways – personal and professional development
Realism and practical support for creative and cultural practice.
Business set up and development support (CEO services expanded?)
Clarity with SEO's and recognition Social Enterprise as a model for
supporting career pathways for cultural workers.
Inclusion means providing space or making room for culture i.e.
cultural workers, cultural work and performance, storage for
equipment, materials and artworks, workshops and facilities that
support practice (recording studios, kilns, printmakers workshop,
picture framers, photographic studio and dark rooms etc.
Desperate need to clarify or differentiate between volunteering in
the Arts and professional Arts workers/Community Cultural workers.
This area is ill defined and because of this undermines both of these
activities by blurring the practitioner's role and status, project to
project.
The draft bill clearly states that there will be no extra or new
money to facilitate its recommendations.
Does this mean that Creative Scotland will offer resources and grants
increasingly to local projects, which `deliver' culture as part of
other agendas?
Will this increase these projects reliance on arts volunteers and
with Social Economy organisations?
What sort of assistance will be available and to who?
What support for Independent Arts Practitioners/Self Employed
Artists. There is no mention of ROP, standards of employment,
pensions or sustainable career development, training or anything that
would lead to improving those delivering the agenda wish to stay in
their profession for any length of time required to develop and
enhance key skills!
There is no evidence of any `overarching' commitment to enhance
artists career development or indeed to truly and genuinely include
them other than to invite them ad hoc to join committees such as
Regeneration (SURF), Community Planning Partnerships and local Social
Economy Organisation and Networks that might employ them. This they
can do already and generally they don't get involved at the moment as
they are not valued and often can't afford to get involved or have
the time to attend.
There is no comment on the dismal working conditions and pay of those
who are expected to deliver this agenda.
There is already well-developed ways of accessing cultural
volunteering, so why are really useful web sites like Connector
Scotland having their funding withdrawn!!
Given the key role of culture as an instrument (remedial) tool used
to address Anti Social Behaviour (1.59)(to explore issues and divert
attention), what training will be (or is already) available to
cultural volunteers? Or indeed to paid cultural workers?
Currently most paid workers have no such training!
(unless they studied community arts(?) Social engagement was not on
my curriculum at Art School.
Gaining skills after graduation or should undergraduates get more
preparation whilst studying, it could be training that is offered as
optional whilst at Art School or the RSAMD?
Placements and apprenticeships could be an option?
Increased employment prospects…why are the employment prospects so
crap?
1.65, 1.67. 1.70 (staff training)
What sort of progression would help to enhance artist's income and
support their skills development?
Creative and Cultural Sector Skills Council?????

Please let me have your thoughts.