Creative & Cultural Skills is the UK sector skills council for craft, cultural heritage, design, music, performing arts and the visual and performing arts.
We champion alternative entry routes into the creative and cultural industries by developing and promoting apprenticeship options, providing guidance on best practice approaches to recruitment to aid greater sector inclusivity, and sector-specific enrichment opportunities for learners looking to pursue a career in the sector. We actively work with education partners to make links with employers to provide sector-specific vocational and technical training.
Over the last year we have been busy working across the UK. In England we have partnered with Screen Skills and the Creative Industries Federation to launch the Creative Careers Programme, an industry-designed initiative that aims to reach over two million young people by 2020.
In Wales we have been training the next generation of heritage workers through the Cultural Ambition project, delivering traineeships to young people aged 18-24 who have the chance to spend a 12-month placement on a heritage site working towards a qualification.
And in Northern Ireland we celebrated the completion of our three-year Northern Ireland Creative Employment Programme, which saw the creation of 89 creative apprenticeships and paid internships across the country.
