The ‘monopoly’ arts councils and local authorities have over public funding of the arts has been called into question in a new report. “The distribution of public finance relies on only two types of institution: local authorities and arts councils,” writes Author Dr Stephen Hetherington, “it is an open question as to whether this is a good thing or restrictive and disadvantageous to the state’s purposes.”

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