The Creative Industries Sector Vision: A joint plan to drive growth, build talent and develop skills
I am pleased to announce that the Creative Industries Sector Vision has been published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Our creative industries are a true British success story. They drive economic growth at home - contributing £108 billion in 2021 to the UK economy - and are a brilliant global advert for our creativity and values. The sector is one of the Chancellor's key growth sectors, and they play a vital role in delivering the PM's priority to "grow the economy, creating better-paid jobs and opportunity right across the country."
The Vision published this week aims to build on this world class excellence. This Vision is about maximising growth, nurturing young people’s talent and delivering on the creative potential that exists right across the country. By 2030 - working with industry - we plan to grow these industries by £50 billion of gross value added and support a million extra jobs with a pipeline of talent and opportunity for young people.
This Vision is a blueprint for how we support creatives from their first day at school to their last day at work. This Vision sets out a creative careers promise backed by a comprehensive package of support to open up opportunities, particularly for young people, in our creative industries. A concerted focus from schools, to post-16 education and lifelong learning will help us build and maintain a talent pipeline of people who can fulfil the creative jobs of the future. When those young people, or those wanting to take up a creative career, are ready to translate their dreams into reality, we will help them get there with targeted investment.
We know that creative businesses flourish in geographic clusters. Part of how we do that is by building on the clusters of excellence we have across the country - like games in Dundee, film in Northern Ireland and TV and fashion in Leeds. Once our creative individuals and businesses are ready for the next step, we want to back them to crack new markets, export their talents globally and break through any barriers they encounter.
To make progress towards meeting these ambitions, government has committed to an additional £77 million in new funding in the Sector Vision, to support this economic powerhouse of a sector.
This document is a living policy framework for us to build on and achieve the ambitions we have agreed between industry and government, and I am incredibly proud of it.