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Dateline: 30th April, 2008
McMaster Review: ACE Responds Arts Council England has responded to the recommendations of Sir Brian McMaster's review Supporting excellence in the arts - from measurement to judgement which was commissioned by the DCMS. The organisation's focus, said chief executive Alan Davey, would be on:
In terms of touring, ACE is to look at those areas of the country which are not as well served by drama, dance or music and will attempt to "plug the gaps" and, Davey said, the results of the current Theatre Assessment will feed into this area of discussion. He wants closer co-operation between the British Council (whose director of arts has just left - see our news story) and ACE so that the best work from aborad can be seen here and the best work from Britain can travel internationally. He pointed to the RSC Complete Works season as an example of the best work in this area. On the relationship between ACE and the RFOs, he said that MacMaster's proposals for a ten-year funding period needs closer study and much thought, although he does feel that ten years is too long and that an extended but not so long period is a possibility. On the vexed problem of reaching funding decisions, which cuased such uproar over the Christmas and New Year period, ACE will look to implement McMaster's proposlas on self-assessment and peer review, although he does not enviage a return to the old panel system. The organisation, he said, was looking at alternative forms of peer review and hopes to begin trialling a new system in 2009. He also added that, of course, Genista McIntosh's review will form an important part of future decisions about funding. The one McMaster recommendation which does not meet with his approval, although he dully supports the reasons behind it, is the suggested "free week" which was a response to the recommendation "I recommend that, since cultural organisations have a vested interest in and responsibility for supporting and developing talent, they should be providing free or discounted tickets to aspiring practitioners." There are, he thinks, over ways of achieving the same thing.
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