Creative Scotland Equality Outcomes – 2013 to 2015
We are refreshing our approach to equalities to put more focus on being fair,
enabling, transparent and distinctive - working to ensure that we have a
positive influence on wider creative practice and people’s experience of the
arts and culture in Scotland.
We believe that participation in the arts can help promote equality and
diversity, and contributes to wellbeing. People from different backgrounds, of
all ages, and of different equality groups can discover significant life
opportunities through access to the arts.
For Creative Scotland, equalities mean that we:
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Support a distinctive and diverse culture in Scotland, enabling all
creative voices to be heard
Work to promote maximum opportunity to engage with and participate
in arts throughout the country
Foster understanding and bring about positive attitudes towards, and
between, different people in Scottish society and internationally
Support our staff to develop a genuine understanding of equalities to
help us to achieve our vision for a fully inclusive arts and creative
industries sector.
These objectives are reflected in Creative Scotland’s values, and in our
revised Annual Plan, published in July 2013.
This information is available in alternative formats.
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Creative Scotland
Equality Outcomes
Creative Scotland’s equality outcomes focus on the core areas of our
organisation and will help us to eliminate discrimination, promote equality and
foster good relations, as required by the Public Sector Equality Duty. We are
including these protected characteristics in our equality outcomes:
Age
Disability
Race
Gender
Religion / belief
Sexual orientation
Transgender / gender reassignment
Pregnancy and maternity
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Equality Outcome 1
Our funding support more accurately reflects the diversity of
contemporary Scotland
How will we achieve this?
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Revise our funding
programmes and procurement
process to ensure that we
deliver a funding approach that
is fair, transparent and
enabling
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Ensure our funding processes
are clear and accessible
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Offer clear support and advice
to applicants from equalities
groups
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Make our equality aims clear in
our funding programmes and
include measures of assessment
against these aims, where
relevant to funding criteria
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Provide equality assessment
training to all staff involved in
funding decision-making
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Improve monitoring, data
collection and analysis to
identify gaps and opportunities
for mainstreaming, including
protected characteristics of
sexual orientation and
transgender
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Review our funding decisions to
ensure we are continuing to
make progress against our
equality aims
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Monitor our procurement
contracts to ensure equalities
are reflected in decision making
and delivery, ensuring that our
suppliers have equality policies
and they do not discriminate in
relation to any of the protected
characteristics.
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Conduct a sectoral review in
equalities across the arts in
2014/15
Links to our corporate plan
Equalities is a cross cutting theme in
our Corporate Plan 2011-14,
Investing in Scotland’s Creative
Future. See p33.
Measuring Progress
We will publish our funding decisions,
and analysis by protected
characteristic, from 2014/15, once
improved data collection is in place.
Public Sector Equality Duty
Eliminate discrimination.
Promote equality.
Foster good relations.
Equality characteristics
All protected characteristics.
Additional contributory actions
Support a diverse arts sector through
the artists and arts organisations we
fund.
Encourage partnership working
between ‘mainstream’ arts
organisations and those with a
specific equality focus to support
attitudinal change at home and
abroad (for example, around disability
and inclusive arts practice).
Support a diverse cultural programme
in Glasgow 2014
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Equality Outcome 2
That opportunities to engage with, and participate in, arts,
screen and creative industries, throughout the country are more
inclusive and accessible to everyone.
How will we achieve this?
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Work closely with partners and
other stakeholders to deliver
this outcome.
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Ensure our approach to arts
development and advocacy
supports, sustains and profiles a
diverse arts and cultural sector
in Scotland.
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Identify equality gaps or
development areas requiring
our support.
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Identify opportunities and good
practice for further development
and share good practice to
widen impact.
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Programme of equality events
for staff and the sector.
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Encourage partnership working
by those we fund.
Links to our corporate plan
Equalities is a cross cutting theme in
our Corporate Plan 2011-14,
Investing in Scotland’s Creative
Future. See p 33.
Measuring Progress
We will analyse our funding decisions,
and final reports from successful
applicants, by protected characteristic
from 2014/15, once improved data
collection is in place.
Public Sector Equality Duty
Eliminate discrimination.
Promote equality.
Foster good relations.
Equality characteristics
All protected characteristics.
Additional contributory actions
Continue to support arts
organisations offering a range of
opportunities, including talent
development for people with
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protected characteristics.
Develop new partnerships between
‘mainstream’ and equality focussed
organisations , particularly through
our Promoting Equalities Programme
(PEP), to develop understanding
between different people.
Support talent hubs focussing on
equality groups (eg. dance and
disability).
Promote learning for artists for artists
working in participatory settings.
Develop access in Scottish arts
venues through developing capacity
of access initiatives.
Continue to embed access
considerations in Capital Lottery
programme.
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Equality Outcome 3
Employment patterns in the arts, screen and creative industries
better represent the diversity of Scotland.
How will we achieve this?
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Work closely with partners and
other stakeholders to deliver
this outcome.
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Monitor and analyse the
equality characteristics in
employment in our funded
organisations, both creative and
administrative posts (through
our Annual Returns) and use
data to inform equality impact
assessments.
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Identify and support talent
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Encourage arts employment
opportunities to be advertised
widely.
Links to our corporate plan
Equalities is a cross cutting theme in
our Corporate Plan 2011-14,
Investing in Scotland’s Creative
Future. See p 33.
Measuring Progress
We will collect baseline data from
Annual Returns in 2013/14, and
report annually on progress.
Public Sector Equality Duty
Eliminate discrimination.
Promote equality.
Foster good relations.
Equality characteristics
All protected characteristics.
Additional contributory actions
We will identify and address gaps in
data collection for employment and
protected characteristics as part of
the Equality Sector Review planned in
2014/15.
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Equality Outcome 4
Our staff have a genuine understanding of, and commitment to,
equalities.
How will we achieve this?
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Ensure our staff are trained in
effective equalities practice, and
fully understand the importance
of equalities in delivering our
corporate objectives.
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Revise our Corporate Plan to
ensure that our equality
strategy is fully integrated.
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Ensuring that Equalities practice
exists as a core element of
recruitment practice.
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Refresh our equalities vision to
ensure there is a clear and
consistent narrative to describe
equalities in Creative Scotland.
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Use equality data and analysis
more effectively to inform
planning, policy development,
delivery, monitoring and
evaluation.
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Revise our Equality Impact
Assessment process, and train
our Board, SMT and Portfolio
Managers to analyse the
intended, and actual, impact of
our corporate activity.
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Improve the profile of equalities
in our communications.
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Use our employee equality
information (including feedback
from Stonewall’s Workplace
Equality Index) to develop HR
policy and an equalities training
programme for staff and Board
members.
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Further develop our Equalities
Advisory Group and Equality
Champions.
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Links to our corporate plan
Equalities is a cross cutting theme in
our Corporate Plan 2011-14,
Investing in Scotland’s Creative
Future. See p 33.
Measuring Progress
Evidence of equalities in decision
making, including funding decisions.
Low level of complaints.
Increased equalities presence in our
communications, including website
Continue to take part in the Stonewall
Workplace Equality Index, and
improve ratings on an annual basis.
Public Sector Equality Duty
Eliminate discrimination.
Promote equality.
Foster good relations.
Equality characteristics
All protected characteristics.
Additional contributory actions
Continue to work with Stonewall
Scotland as part of the Diversity
Champion Programme.
Continue to adhere to the Two Ticks
scheme (disability) to deliver an
inclusive workplace.
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Context
Engagement in culture in Scotland, 2011
In Scotland in 2011, 91% of adults
engaged in culture (i.e. those who
attended a cultural event or place or
participated in a cultural activity)
78% of disabled people engaged with
culture (i.e. 1 in 5 disabled people did
not engage in culture).
90% of those people who identified as
Asian Scottish or Asian British
engaged with culture.
85% of men engaged with culture,
compared to 89% of women.
93% of 16-24 year olds, 85% of 6074 year olds, and 74% of those aged
75 and above engaged in culture (i.e.
1 in 4 older people did not engage in
culture).
85% of Muslims engaged with
culture, compared to 92% of
Christians.
There is little national information
available on the experiences of
lesbian, gay and bi-sexual people in
relation to cultural engagement.
There is limited evidence into the
experiences of transgender people in
Scotland.
Demography
In 2001, over one million people had
a ‘limiting long term illness’ in
Scotland (Source: 2001 Census, Table
UV22 (awaiting Census 2011).
In 2001, 2% of the total population of
Scotland, or approximately 100,000
people, identified as from a Black,
Asian or Ethnic Minority background.
(Source: Analysis of Ethnicity in the
2001 Census, Summary Report
(2004). (awaiting Census 2011).
In 2011 17% of the population were
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aged 65 and over, and there were
230,000 people aged 80 and over
(Scotland’s Census 2011).
In 2011, there were 24 entries in the
Gender Recognition Register in
Scotland (record of transsexual
person whose acquired gender has
been legally recognised).
Evidence
Scottish Household Survey Annual
Report (2011).
Analysis of Religion in the 2001
Census, Summary Report (2005).
Analysis of Ethnicity in the 2001
Census, Summary report (2004).
Census 2001.
Tuned Out, the BBC’s Portrayal of
lesbian and gay people, Stonewall.
Unseen on Screen. Gay people on
Youth TV, Stonewall.
Economic Impact studies, 2006-09,
Glasgay Festival
Audience Survey results, 2010-11,
Glasgay Festival
Calm Down, Dear! Stellar Quines
Theatre Company and Gender in
Scottish Theatre, Research report
(2011)
London 2012 Evaluation, UWS (to be
published 2013).
Dance and Older People, evaluation
report, Lucy Mason, Nicholas Bone
and Kevin Cameron (2012).
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