The UK Museums Workforce Steering Group was established in response to the Character Matters Research and Report – Attitudes, Behaviours and Skills in the UK Museum Workforce (published 2016).
This research project saw high consultation engagement and made a number of recommendations to future proof the sector over the next ten years. These were grouped under the following headings:
The UK Museums Workforce Steering Group committed to ensuring this engagement and the insights from this research informed practice and projects within the sector to affect positive change.
The steering group have done this by sharing our own individual organisation’s commitments, sharing good practice and looking for ways to collaborate around the priorities. But workforce development is everyone’s responsibility.
“AIM is proud to be part of the UK wide sector partnership who are working together to ensure that the issues raised in Character Matters report continue to be addressed,” said Emma Chaplin, Director, AIM.
So, as part of this we reflected on what others within the sector could do to affect change; as a sector body, as a museum and at an individual level. We captured this thinking in the Character Matters Delivery Plan 2018-2020, which was launched in June 2018.
One year from the launch of the delivery plan, the steering group has developed an Annual Summary 2018-2019 which can be downloaded here:
Character Matters Annual Summary 2018-2019
Produced by the UK Museums Workforce Steering Group: Arts Council England; Association of Independent Museums; National Lottery Heritage Fund; Museums, Archives and Libraries Division (Welsh Government); Museums Association, Museums Galleries Scotland; Northern Ireland Museums Council.
For updates on the plan, please follow the hashtag: #MuseumCharacterMatters
You can also follow all members of the steering group on Twitter at:
@Aimuseums
@ace_national
@MuseumsAssoc
@MuseumsGalScot
@HeritageFundUK
@NIMuseums
@Welshgovernment
@wgdep_culture