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As I’m sure you’re all aware, it’s been a week of dramatic announcements regarding the future of the regional screen agencies. Whilst we’re about to enter a period of change and restructuring, I am keen to reassure all the creatives we work with that any changes to the structure of the support network will not affect our accessibility or performance. We are committed to maintaining our services to everyone in the region.
The Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey’s statement on Monday illustrated the Government’s commitment to the local support of the creative industries. But that’s not the end of the matter. Now that the screen agencies are to be reshaped into Creative North, Creative Central and Creative South, we have to start looking at the best way of making this happen whilst ensuring no interruption of the services we currently provide on the ground. As many of you are aware, initial suggestions are that Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester would be the most suitable hubs for the three new creative regions. We’re now going to start a period of industry consultation to determine whether these three centres would work best as the regional hubs and everyone will have their opportunity to feed into this consultation before any further decisions are taken. One thing I am keen to stress is that wherever the hub is determined to be, we will strive to ensure our local services across all areas from audience development to training programmes are maintained across the entire southern region.
I hope this goes some way to putting people’s minds to rest after the various stories circulating in the press this week. We won’t be able to say more until after the industry consultation in the New Year, but we will be keeping you posted with any new developments through our e-bulletin and on our website.
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