A mail out hit my inbox today about Creative Scotland:
a proposed merger of the public bodies, the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen, and Scottish Cultural Enterprise, into a private company
(Variant Magazine, 26 November 2008)
I’ve done a bit of research, and it all does look quite worrying: here’s the PDF of email correspondence and much else relating to the setting up of the Cultural Commission (the interim agency which would then, if I have this right, segue into Creative Scotland): http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/FOI/19260/CCPDF2
But, the core concern seems to be here, in a page I’ve pulled verbatim from the above PDF (See last bullet point in particular):
