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		<title>Why &#8216;culture counts&#8217; &#8211; a letter to all Scottish Local Authorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 27th August 2012, Culture Counts campaign sent out the following letter to all Scottish Local Authorities Councillors and Chief Executives. The letter was accompanied by a document (attached below) highlighting the benefits of culture and presenting our arguments why &#8216;culture counts&#8217;: &#160; 27 August 2012 Dear Councillor At the beginning of 2011 key organisations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=467&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Increase Cultural Engagement&#8217; national indicator now published</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new National Indicator &#8216;Increase Cultural Engagement&#8217; has been published on Scotland Performs website. Based on the Scottish Household Survey, the indicator measures the percentage of adults who have either participated in a cultural activity or who have attended or visited a cultural event or place in the last 12 months. The 2010 indicator of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=461&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK Arts Index launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publication of the UK Arts Index by the National Campaign for the Arts gives us a good opportunity to look at two contrasting points of view: on one hand: can value of art be represented by a set of indicators, on the other: shouldn’t we treat art as priceless and hence beyond any economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=443&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New National Indicators &#8211; including one for culture!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 14th December, the Scottish Government has published the latest updates to the national indicators of progress, which feed into the National Performance Framework. There are 12 entirely new indicators, including one for culture: &#8221;Increase cultural engagement&#8217;. This is certainly a positive step towards emphasising the importance of culture in Scottish civic life. Cabinet Secretary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=440&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts to culture budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government yesterday published its Spending Review 20122 – 12 and Draft budget for 2012 &#8211; 13.  Its review of spending highlights the successes of the arts, culture and creative industries. But the outlook for culture is challenging. Culture budgets have been cut and the proportion of the overall government budget allocated to culture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=416&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Scottish Spending Review 2011 published today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The review has been published today. The summary can be found here and Culture Counts&#8217; response is coming up soon&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=414&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Scotland&#8217;s achievements in its first year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Andrew Dixon, CEO of Creative Scotland met the Education and Culture Committee and gave good news about the creative sector in Scotland and the achievements of Creative Scotland in its first year: • the business model works • 87 per cent of its Foundation clients are satisfied • the move to new offices at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=405&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Government’s Economic Strategy: How the creative industries should be supported to achieve economic growth.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Faster sustainable economic growth is the key to unlocking Scotland’s potential and strengthening our greatest asset – the people of Scotland. It is the avenue through which we can deliver a better, more prosperous and fairer society.” First Minister Alex Salmond in his introduction to the Government Economic Strategy The Scottish Government published its Government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=392&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Government&#8217;s Programme for Scotland 2011-2012. What does it mean for the arts, culture and creative industries?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government’s Programme for 2011 -12 published on 7th September sets out the priorities for the year ahead and specifically the legislative programme. There is one cultural Bill, the National Library of Scotland Bill, designed to enable the NLS to update and develop its services and functions for the 21st century, responding to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=368&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture counts and the numbers are high!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Herald reports that the newly refurbished National Museum of Scotland has attracted over 500,000 people in the first six weeks of its reopening.  That&#8217;s roughly the whole population of Edinburgh! This makes August a record-breaking month in Edinburgh: there were 1.95mln tickets sold at the Fringe and it was also the best ever August [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturecounts.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19915472&#038;post=365&#038;subd=culturecounts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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