IPPR report calls for advertising, film and TV to support businesses outside London and to help develop non-white talentThe UK's creative industries need to embrace regional and ethnic diversity if they are to play an improved role in helping the economy, warns a report from a leading thinktank.The Institute for Public Policy Research has published a wide-ranging report into the creative industries ahead of this week's Oxford Media Convention, in which it calls on the government and private sector to diversity investment in the creative industries away from London.It has also called for the UK's existing broadcasters, including the BBC, to provide "venture capital for creativity" in the wider production sector through their investment and commissioning policies.The report, March of the Modern Makers: An Industrial Strategy for the Creative Industries, argues that a lack of regional and ethnic diversity is preventing the creative industries – which span advertising , publishing, music, visual arts, film and TV – from reaching their full potential.The report highlights the over-concentration of the creative sector in London, and low recruitment of people from non-white and less well-off backgrounds, as threats to the future competitiveness of the sector.It points to statistics, such as the proportion of non-white people working in the creative sector being about half of that of the rest of the economy and actually declining during the 2009-12 downturn.Creative industries... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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IPPR report calls for advertising, film and TV to support businesses outside London and to help develop non-white talentThe UK's creative industries need to embrace regional and ethnic diversity if they are to play an improved role in helping the economy, warns a report from a leading... Continue reading at The Guardian
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