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Now that the Comprehensive Spending Review has been announced, the arts sector is holding its collective breath to find out how ACE will implement the 28.6% in DCMS funding. We are not alone. Health, Education and everyone else involved in the public sector, along with many private sector contractors, are all trying to establish just how they are going to deal with the masses cuts in public expenditure. According to a recent… Continue

See the link, below, to a Guardian article about a report from the Tory think tank The Centre for Social Justice set up by Iain Duncan Smith.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/01/treasury-criticised-spending-cuts

I’ve been reading the contributions to the debate on cuts to

arts sector funding and the huge changes we suspect will be coming our way once the comprehensive spending review is completed and implemented in the autumn. For what they are worth here are a few reflections from an arts administrator who lived through thelast cut and burn economic policy.



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