The 1st British-Irish Council Creative Industries Ministerial meeting was held at the Jersey Museum today hosted by Assistant Economic Development Minister, Deputy Murray Norton, who leads on the Culture portfolio, for Economic Development. 

The meeting focused on the creative industries and discussed how the skills capacity of the creative industries can be developed and considered examples of creative collaboration and the impact of the creative industries on the wider economy.

Ministers welcomed the report “A Creative Collaboration: Creative Industries Sector Report 2015” which provides details of best practice across all of the BIC member administrations in encouraging growth and demonstrating some of the ways in which Governments have provided support to the sector.

The full communique can be viewed here.