UK agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates has hired Sara Johnson and Julie Fernandez, co-founders of Bridge06.
17.11.2023 - 00:29 / deadline.com
A plan has been laid out to close the “burgeoning disconnect” between the UK’s physical production workforce and demand for skills.
The Secret Sectors Skills Task Force, chaired by former Amazon Studios Head of European Originals Georgia Brown and backed by everyone from Netflix to the BBC, has published its report into creating a sustainable future for a skilled workforce and made several recommendations to change the industry from the roots up.
The Task Force, originally known as the BFI Skills Task Force, was created was in response to a BFI Skills Review last year that set out several issues among the UK’s production sector. That report called for urgent action, including a demand the screen sector invests 1% of all production budgets into training and the need for an additional £104M ($129.5M) and 20,000 full-time jobs over the next three years for the industry to keep up with demand for high-end projects.
Having brought together leaders from 28 organizations across UK industry for the first time to candidly share business insights and knowledge, the Task Force has now made recommended three key proposals:
The Task Force’s lead option to achieve the goals is by transforming skills body ScreenSkills, whose CEO Seetha Kumar is stepping down at the end of 2023. Deadline understands there is a belief the timing is right for change and is achievable. ScreenSkills is among the 28 industry bodies involved, so is clearly on board with the idea.
After a media briefing yesterday at ITV’s offices in West London, ScreenSkills issued a statement saying it was “strongly committed to working towards a unified skills strategy, data and insight driven and built on partnership as the backbone for our creatively brilliant sector.
UK agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates has hired Sara Johnson and Julie Fernandez, co-founders of Bridge06.
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