01 January 04

Capturing cultural value – how culture has become a tool of government policy

In June 2004, Tessa Jowell, then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, published a personal essay called Government and the Value of Culture, in which she asked, 'How, in going beyond targets, can we best capture the value of culture?' This document responds to Jowell's essay, proposing a wholesale reshaping of the public funding of culture.

Provides useful definition of cultural value and its application. The proposals made challenge early New Labour cultural funding policy. It can be seen that some proposals were enacted, for example, the requirement for Local Authorities to create Cultural Strategies. Others now seem positively utopian.

Contributor:: John Holden
Publisher:: Demos
Date:: 2004

Capturing cultural value ? How culture has become a tool of Government policy

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