From The Stage: Plan to create up to 10,000 entry-level jobs in [UK] cultural industries.

While full details of the scheme have yet to be decided, the first tranche of funding will be released to help create 200 jobs for young people working on music festivals across the UK this summer. It is expected that the scheme will roll out to other industries, such as theatre, later this year and in early 2010, although money will be allocated on a case by case basis as arts organisations bid for funding.

Purnell explained that the aim of the scheme was “recruiting a whole new generation of people, who will either go into these sectors professionally afterwards or be able to take the great skills that people are taught from these sectors into a whole other range of professions”.