Disabled representation on arts boards at risk as pressures mount, conference hears - Arts Professional
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Disabled representation on arts boards is at risk due to increasing demands, benefits cuts, and reduced Access to Work funding, making trustee roles more difficult to navigate for disabled people. Arts leaders call for organisations to proactively examine barriers and implement low-cost accessibility improvements rather than relying on disabled board members to identify problems.
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As cultural governance becomes more “hotly contested territory” and organisations lurch “from one crisis to the next”, the “inclusive glue that has kept progress going is now feeling very stretched”, arts access champion for All In Andrew Miller has said. Miller told a panel at the Governance Now conference yesterday (3 November) that arts boards are at the “hot end of the culture wars”, which are…
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