SCOTLAND'S Culture Secretary has warned the nation's arts funding body that she expects it to "take seriously" the views of artists and arts companies over its controversial funding changes.
Fiona Hyslop has written a new letter of guidance to Creative Scotland's chairman, Sir Sandy Crombie, which although broadly supportive of the body's work, contains several strongly worded explanations of what she expects from its work in the coming year. One of these is "greater emphasis to listening" to the concerns of the sector, which she expects the body to work with "collaboratively, exemplifying relationships of trust and respect".
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