EQUALITIES, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION REPORT 2015 This information is available in alternative formats and languages on request. Whiteout courtesy of Barrowland Ballet. Designer: Jason Brown (Image: Pavel Dousek) CONTENTS 3 ................Foreword by Janet Archer 4 ................Board Statement by Richard Findlay 5 ................Creative Scotland: Equalities in Creative Scotland Terminology EDI review 2015/16 Legal Framework Employment 8 ................Equality Outcomes: Progress on mainstreaming equality 26 ............Appendix 1 – Creative Scotland employment data, 2013-15 39 ............Appendix 2 – Annual Returns: employment data from funded organisations, 2012-14 42 ............Appendix 3 – Gender Pay Gap 43 ............Appendix 4 – 2014 Scottish Household Survey Results 47 ............Appendix 5 – Recruitment data, training and development 2 FOREWORD This Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Mainstreaming report actively engage audiences and participants in diverse, high presents the progress being made by Creative Scotland to quality arts programmes. mainstream equalities and deliver our Equality Outcomes The arts, screen and creative industries are effectively 2013-2017. It is a statutory requirement of the Equality Act mainstreaming equalities, and in some areas – such as arts 2010. and disability – Scotland is internationally recognised as a Scotland is a country where art and culture are highly valued pioneer in disability art practice. as an integral part of our social, emotional, intellectual and But we know there are gaps. From 2016, we expect all economic lives. But Scotland is changing. It is increasingly our funded organisations to have Equalities, Diversity diverse. Our cities are home to a significant and growing and Inclusion Plans in place as a condition of funding. We BAME population. We are an ageing population, and about will respond better to Black, Asian and minority ethnic one in five of us is disabled. communities in Scotland, and support the development of Creative Scotland believes passionately in the value of BAME leadership, employment and representation in the artistic and creative activity, and we do not underestimate arts. Later this year, we will be discussing how to take this the influence we can have, in transforming and improving forward, informed by our EDI review. The review will support people’s lives. We know that the arts contribute positively to us to develop a more robust evidence base to identify gaps the health and wellbeing of individuals and of communities, and support further activity to deliver our Equality Outcomes, and bring benefits to learning and education. The arts can improving the mainstreaming of EDI policy and practice in all give marginalised members of society a voice. And, working Creative Scotland activities, and in those we fund. in partnership across sectors including health and social care, Diversity is invigorating. If we embrace it, and learn from education and justice, the arts can help to challenge and others, we can sustain a thriving arts and cultural sector and address the inequalities that pervade Scotland today. contribute to the Scottish Government’s aims for a fairer and Since 2013, when Creative Scotland published our Equality more inclusive society in Scotland today. Outcomes and first Mainstreaming Report, we have been working with partners across the country to deliver change, Janet Archer outlined in the objectives of our Ten Year Plan ‘Unlocking Potential, Embracing Ambition’, published in 2014, and our Chief Executive Annual Plan 2014-15. We fund artists, practitioners, projects Creative Scotland, April 2015 and organisations to work in their local communities and to 3 BOARD STATEMENT At a recent Chair Matters event (run by Arts & Business Scotland in partnership with Creative Scotland), Chairs of arts organisations throughout Scotland met to discuss ‘a culture of equality’. We were challenged to adopt positive, proactive approaches and to ensure our organisations embrace diversity to ensure sustainability into the future. Everyone benefits from diversity and the innovation this can bring. Every decision we take has the potential to include or exclude audiences, employees, suppliers and partners. Creative Scotland recognises its responsibility to develop and support a strong culture of equality in the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland. As this report indicates, we are driving change in the sectors in which we work to fully embrace the diverse society of Scotland today. Richard Findlay Chair Creative Scotland April 2015 4 CREATIVE SCOTLAND 1.1 Creative Scotland (CS) is the public body that supports 1.4 As well as our ambitions, there are four connecting themes the arts, screen and creative industries across all parts of that run through all aspects of our work. Scotland on behalf of everyone who lives, works or visits Equalities and diversity here. We enable people and organisations to work in and Creative learning experience the arts and creative sectors in Scotland. We do this by helping others to create culture through developing Digital great ideas and bringing them to life. Environment 1.2 In April 2014 we launched our 10 Year Plan Unlocking 1.5 Further information on Creative Scotland can be found on Potential, Embracing Ambition, setting out a shared vision our website: www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland. EQUALITIES IN CREATIVE SCOTLAND 1.3 CS has five ambitions that frame our collective aims over the next ten years: 2.1 Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are fundamental to Creative Scotland and the sectors which we support. We Excellence and experimentation across the arts, screen work with many partners to deliver change and reflect the and creative industries is recognised and valued increasingly diverse culture in Scotland today. Art changes Everyone can access and enjoy artistic and creative perceptions and attitudes and can offer a voice to the most experiences marginalized in society. We know that the arts can improve lives and contribute positively to the health and wellbeing Places and quality of life are transformed through of individuals and of communities. imagination, ambition and an understanding of the potential of creativity 2.2 Creative Scotland has an important influencing role. We promote EDI within the leadership, workforce, Ideas are brought to life by a diverse, skilled and connected leadership and workforce programming and audiences of all our funded arts organisations, not only those who specialise in equalities. Scotland is a distinctive creative nation connected to the Many of the organisations we fund have diverse world. programmes, and many projects take place in areas of deprivation, targeting people with defined equality characteristics. EDI is vital to thriving arts, screen and creative industries. Growing diversity contributes to sustainability. 5 TERMINOLOGY LEGAL FRAMEWORK 2.3 ‘Equalities’ or ‘equalities and diversity’ are the terms 3.1 The Equality Act 2010 includes the Public Sector Equality that have been used by Creative Scotland, and widely Duty (PSED), which requires public authorities to take a adopted in the arts, film and creative industries sectors in proactive approach to tackling institutional discrimination, Scotland, to cover EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion). and to mainstream equality. ‘Equalities’ is not constrained by legal definitions, and includes arts and health & wellbeing as well as wider socio- 3.2 General Duty: economic issues. We now use the term ‘EDI’ or ‘Equalities, The public sector equality duty has a general duty which Diversity and Inclusion’ to indicate this broader definition, sets out requirements for all public authorities and those and to emphasise our commitment to developing and bodies exercising a public function, and specific duties, supporting arts, film and creative industries that are more which place additional requirements on listed public representative of the diversity in Scotland today. authorities. EQUALITIES, DIVERSITY AND The ‘general duty’ requires public authorities, including INCLUSION REVIEW 2015/16 Creative Scotland, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to: 2.4 During 2015/16, Creative Scotland is undertaking a major review of EDI. The review will look at how the organisation Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and mainstreams EDI in its everyday activities. It will also look victimisation and other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act 2010 at how best to support the arts, film and creative industries to support, integrate and promote equalities. The review Advance equality of opportunity between people who aims to provide a catalyst for developing wider and more share a relevant protected characteristic and those who diverse representation, employment and leadership do not throughout the arts and culture sectors in Scotland. The Foster good relations between people who share a outcomes of the review will contribute to the development protected characteristic and those who do not. of the arts strategy and the international strategy in 2016, as well as the continuing delivery of the creative industries 3.3 Protected characteristics: and film strategies, the youth arts strategy, and wider policy making. The public sector equality duty covers the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion 6 or belief and sexual orientation.