Arts Council England chief executive Alan Davey has warned any future government against cutting public funding for the arts, arguing that not only will it affect the cultural quality of life in the country but will also be economically damaging.
Job and service cuts proposed by councils struggling to cope with the economic downturn have sparked fears for the future of local arts provision across England and Wales. Both the National Campaign for the Arts and the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers have warned that non-statutory services such as culture are likely to be first hit when authorities implement cost-cutting drives
ulture secretary Andy Burnham has alerted subsidised arts organisations that they are not “immune” from a government savings drive in the face of the global financial crisis and that they should start making “contingency plans” in case current funding levels are cut in 2010.
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