3.6f What are the distinct features of creative freelancers/the self-employed compared to those in the wider economy, including difference in approach to contractual arrangements, remuneration models, types of earnings (royalties vs sales), and skills development?

Background

A resilient, skilled and diverse workforce, fit for the future, is at the core of a thriving creative sector. As a result, DCMS welcomes engagement on skills, training and workforce development. Ensuring creative workers have skills that match business and market needs, and are adaptable to future industry and consumer demand are central to DCMS policy. Support for skills sits alongside DCMS’s commitment to good work in the creative industries, underpinned by understanding working patterns, wages and incomes, and sustainable careers.

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