The Government recently published the first national arts policy, Culture 2025. The framework document is partly the result of extensive consultations with arts organisations.To anyone not directly working in the sector, it probably contains little of interest. Specific targets and deadlines are notable by their absence and it is filled with the sort of arts-administration jargon the culture sector is often guilty of.

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