The UK creative and cultural industries are among the world's best. In advertising, craft, cultural heritage, design, music, literature, the performing and visual arts, we are global leaders in all fields.

Accurate Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) is vital to ensure we can promote the sector's interests and challenges to Government.

At Creative & Cultural Skills our understanding of our sector is backed by robust research which we update regularly.

Our Creative Blueprint provides an analysis of our sectors within each of the UK countries.

Understanding our industries

We campaign on behalf of our sectors to bring about solutions to address the challenges they face.

By directly consulting creative and cultural industries across the board, we examine where the skills gaps are and what can be done to fill them. We then develop workforce action plans which set out the sector's own approach to delivering change.

We are currently publishing UK workforce development plans for each of the sectors; Design, Cultural Heritage, Craft and Visual Arts are now complete. We have also produced an analysis of the skills needs of the Performing Arts sector. Take a look at the links on the right to download these documents and see how your organisation can take part. We will be commencing a consultation in Music in May 2010 - watch this space.

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Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for creative media, is responsible for Animation, Computer Games, Corporate and Commercials, Facilities, Film, Interactive Media, Photo Imaging, Publishing, Radio and Television, and, as of 1 April 2010, Advertising, Fashion and Textiles.

Lifelong Learning UK, the Sector Skills Council responsible for lifelong learning, is responsible for Libraries, Archives and Information Services, Careers Guidance, Community Learning and Development, Further Education, Higher Education, and Work-based Learning.