Sport and Physical Activity Provision for Children and Young People

This is a slide and audio broadcast

A one day audio broadcast conference with presentation slides for professional and specialist policy makers and managers in local authority college and leisure sports and physical activity provision.

Home School Transport #hst13

Broadcast from London

The Future of Culture, Tourism and Sport - Overcoming the financial challenges to improve services #culture12

Broadcast from London

The importance of culture, tourism and sport in addressing issues such as social inclusion; health and crime is becoming increasingly apparent. But despite an annual £3billion spend o...

The Future of Library Services

Broadcast from London and available to view online When the Government launched the Future Libraries programme it was in the belief that innovation, led by local authorities, was the best solution to ensuring the modernisation of library services. Since then, the...

Sports and Physical Activity Provision for Children and Young People

With the squeeze in public finances, the sports provision sector has been provided the opportunity to look for new and more efficient ways to deliver high quality, meaningful sporting activity for children and young people. This 6th national conference brought together local authority heads of service with key delivery partners and national development agencies to discuss their roles within the new structure of spo...

“Rethinking Libraries?” – Axiell Symposium 2011

Excel Conference Centre, London

The Future of Culture, Tourism and Sport

7th National Conference. To be held at Westminster Studio, London SW1

The culture, tourism and sport sector is facing evermore challenging times as budgets are cut, services are redesigned and decentralisation is realised. In this time of austerity it is more important than ever to explore best practice in delivering services, partnership working and localism to ensure that benefits are realised. This conference will bring together senior officers and elected members with local partners and nationa...

Supporting Creative Industries

New routes into arts and culture. 6th National Conference

This conference provided an opportunity for industry representatives, central and local government, and all those involved in the delivery of creative education from FE and HE providers, to discuss the skills and attributes that are really valued in different sectors. Adobe White Paper: The Silent Transformation: Evolution and Impact of...

Sports Provision for Children and Young People

5th National Conference. To be held at Wembley Stadium, London

This conference will bring together local authority heads of service with key delivery partners and national development agencies to discuss their roles within the new government’s strategy for children and young people’s sport.

The Future of Culture, Tourism and Sport

Speakers included: James Berresford, Chief Executive, VisitEngland and Martyn Allison, National Adviser, Culture and Sport, Local Government Improvement & Development

This national conference, held at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London, brought together senior officers and elected members with local partners and national development agencies to co-ordinate their efforts and position culture, tourism and sport within the place-shaping agenda.

The Inaugural Scottish Creative Economy Conference

Held at the University of the West of Scotland

This new conference, developed in partnership with Creative & Cultural Skills, was an opportunity to share national policy and local good practice designed to boost Scotland’s creative economy and reinforce its position as a world-leader in the creative and cultural sectors.

Sports Provision for Children and Young People

4th Annual Conference. Held at the Emirates Stadium, London

This conference brought together local authority leaders and leisure officers, representatives from NGBs and other key organisations with a stake in youth sports provision to discuss how the goals of the government's PESSYP strategy and those of local area agreements can be achieved through sport.

The Future of Culture, Tourism and Sport

5th National Conference. Held at Cavendish Conference Centre

This pivotal annual conference explored how the culture, tourism and sport sectors can meet the challenges that lie ahead, and promote their position in providing high quality public services responsive to the needs of communities.

Delivering Local Outcomes through Libraries

4th National Conference held in central London

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport published its Library Service Modernisation Review in June 2009. The review focused on what a modern library service can contribute to local authorities, and set out the partnership and investment framework across government needed to achieve this vision. This conference, supported by DCMS and the Society of Chief Librarians, equipped delegates with a sound understanding of the review’s find...

Arts Council chair's valedictory lecture

Held at the Royal Institute of British Architects

Defending the principles and practices of the Arts Council since its origins, 63 years ago, under economist John Maynard Keynes through to today, outgoing chairman Sir Christopher Frayling delivered his valedictory lecture marking the end of his five-year term. Referring to today’s tough economic climate, he declared that we are all Keynesians again today. Sir Christopher criticised an obsession with targets by governments of both left an...

Arts Council England - lecture

Royal Society of Arts - London

Alan Davey, Chief Executive of Arts Council England, outlined his vision for the next ten years. His wide ranging speech covered moving away from three funding arrangements and the introduction of a consultation on self-assessment and peer review. He declared that, “the Arts Council, as a major funder of the arts in this country, needs to get beyond a series of false dichotomies – between excellence and engagement, between centralism and r...

The Future of Cultural and Leisure Services

4th Annual Conference held at the Barbican Centre, London

Culture, leisure and sport remain in a perfect position to enable local services to meet targets and outcomes and drive positive change for society as a whole. This annual conference considered how the sector can meet the challenges that lie ahead and promote its position in providing high quality public services responsive to the needs of communities. The event discussed how to negotiate and deliver the critical role culture and sport can ...

Delivering Local Outcomes through Libraries

Annual conference held at Marriot Hotel City Centre, Liverpool

Local public services are going through a massive period of transformation in order to better serve communities, people and places. With Libraries in closer proximity to local populations than most core services, they are well placed to enable local services to deliver their corporate priorities and bring tangible benefits to the quality of life and outcomes for communities. This national conference brought together an audience of senior de...

Who's Happy Now?

Ipsos MorI Social Research Institute Summer Event

Ipsos MORI's fourth annual summer conference examined what the British think of happiness - who's happiest, and who's most miserable - and considered the role Government is and should be playing in promoting citizens' happiness or well-being. Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute Chairman Ben Page was joined in a discussion on these issues by Evan Davis, Presenter of Today, Professor Paul Dolan, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London...

Sports Provision for Children and Young People

In July, the Prime Minister announced that all school children will do up to five hours a week of sport. He pledged an additional £100 million to ensure that the original four-hour ambition for 2010 rises to five. The funding package will provide for a network of competition managers across the country to increase competition, more coaches both in schools and the community and a new national school sport week. In the first national co...

Shaping Places and Communities

This annual conference looked at how cultural and leisure services can respond to and deliver new policy developments, and explored how the service can raise its profile by creating maximum impacts on local outcomes and performance. Speakers included Rt Hon James Purnell MP Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The event brought together leaders from the culture and leisure sector from local, regional and national government, alo...

SKILLS ACTIVE - staying ahead of the game

Energising the Industry 1 May 2007. Wembley Stadium.

Sport, fitness, playwork, the outdoor and caravan sectors have not only contributed well over £8 billion a year to the UK economy, but are key to the social fabric of the nation. With this level of growth, the development opportunities available for your business and key stakeholders are endless. In this light, the convention examined the vital importance of upskilling the workforce for continued success and the ability to increase pa...