Explainers

The Chancellor’s plans include some welcome help, but also highlight a risk of further and deeper cuts to culture.

The Shadow Culture Secretary told us £700m of the £1bn would come from cancelling an “unallocated” budget increase – but we can find no unallocated £700m in the Government’s published plans, leaving the arts far more exposed than the Conservatives have acknowledged.

Since 2010, the share of entries in arts subjects has now shrunk by more than a third at A-level and almost half at GCSE.

How changes to business rates expose the gap between the value and valuation of cultural organisations

The Chancellor avoided big new cuts, but did not unlock significant new potential for the UK’s arts and culture sector.

EBacc scrapped, Progress 8 to be reformed, a new core enrichment entitlement… What does it all mean?

New analysis by the Campaign for the Arts reveals that arts subjects now account for a smaller proportion of GCSE and A-level entries than at any time since 2010.

The Chancellor has made choices in this Spending Review that will affect the health of the arts for the next three years and beyond.

The Government has committed “over £270m” to an ‘Arts Everywhere Fund’, and green-lit £67m of investment in cultural infrastructure projects.

Scotland’s arts body has more than doubled the number of organisations it regularly funds, thanks to an increase in Scottish Government funding for which thousands of CFTA supporters campaigned.

The Chancellor announced a number of tax and spending measures that could affect the health of the arts in the UK.

New analysis by the Campaign for the Arts shows that arts subjects now account for a smaller proportion of GCSE and A-level entries than at any time since 2010.

Ahead of the UK General Election on 4th July 2024, political parties are publishing their manifestos. Manifestos set out the policies and priorities of each

Since 2010, arts enrolment has dropped by 47% at GCSE and 29% at A-level.