‘As our national and international workforce becomes more fragmented, the lessons learned by the creative industries will be critical to the success of the future economy.’

Cultural Learning Alliance - Employability and Enterprise 2018

Lord Baker of Dorking, Digital Revolution (2017)

‘The UK’s future workforce will need technical expertise in areas such as design and computing, plus skills which robots cannot replace – flexibility, empathy, creativity and enterprise.’

Creative Industries Federation, Social Mobility and the Skills Gap Creative Education Agenda (2016)

‘Our creative economy now employs one in 11 of the working population. But we also have a talent crisis. We are failing to provide enough young people with the right mix of skills for many of the exciting jobs in the creative economy as well as in other sectors’

Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall, Hansard HL Deb (2017)

‘Arts-based education is much more than just a nice-to-have extra. It enhances cultural capital and develops flexible, marketable skills … empathy, resilience and an ability to adapt. There is a huge and diverse range of job opportunities available in the creative industries, which is a successful and growing part of our economy.’

The Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP, Secretary of State for Education, Speech to Education World Forum (2018)

‘The hard reality of soft skills is that actually these things around the workplace and these things around character and resilience are important for what anybody can achieve in life, as well as for the success of our economies.’