Skills for Creativity, Strategic Plan 2005-2010 is Creative & Cultural Skills’ first Strategic Plan setting out the medium to long-term strategic aims of Creative & Cultural Skills.

A lot has changed since the plan was signed off by the board and used to underpin our first license as a Sector Skills Council in 2005. The board of trustees have been reviewing the organisation’s progress against the plan in order to draw up the new strategic plan which will take the organization forward from 2010-2015. You can read a review of progress to date here.

The Creative Blueprint, sectoral and regional plans provide us with the underpinning research, and have been ratified by industry and we have used feedback from the industry & stakeholder survey to help inform our direction. The new strategy is being discussed by the board in July and will be reviewed and consulted on over the summer with the aim publishing in the Autumn.

Key delivery ambitions will include the following.

• The consolidation and delivery of our flagship programmes – we are just starting the second year of real delivery so we need to focus on roll-out.
• Consolidating the National Skills Academy as the delivery arm of CCSkills (the strategic agency).
• Positioning CCSkills as a thought leader. For example, through a Centre for the Creative Economy which provides a central point for research, drawing together various sector sub-groups.
• Building on our digital platform. Creative Choices° provides not only information, advice and guidance but also an advanced way of engaging with a wider range of employers across all sectors of the footprint. As digital technology advances we are finding ourselves at the forefront (in SSC terms), which is provides us with ever greater means to engage.

Download Skills for Creativity, Strategic Plan 2005-2010