From 2010 to 2019 the creative industries grew more than one and a half times faster than the wider economy, to be worth more than £115bn, making up around one in eight businesses, and accounting for 7.1% of all UK jobs.
Yet every year we find it harder to recruit the diversity of talent we need due to a gradual reduction in funding of art, design and technology subjects in UK state schools since 2010.
We are calling on the Government to reverse this trend and safeguard the future of the UK’s vital creative industries.
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