Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 26
26
Accepted
Task CIISA to educate the music industry and provide training on sexual harassment and gender bias.
Recommendation
The establishment of CIISA is an opportunity to educate the music industry on the rights of self-employed workers and the responsibilities of those hiring them. It can become a hub of expertise. Earlier in this report we set out how training should be part of the licensing conditions for live music venues. We described how France’s National Centre of Music is working with grassroots organisations to provide training around sexual harassment and sexual violence. We ask CIISA to consider whether it could undertake a similar role in the UK, for live music venues seeking to meet new licensing conditions as well as other organisations such as recording studios and educational settings, and for that training to also include tackling issues of misogyny and gender bias. (Recommendation, Paragraph 123)
Government Response Summary
The government states that CIISA will look to set standards and provide training on tackling and preventing sexual harassment, sexual violence, misogyny, and bias across the creative industries.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
We will look to set standards and provide training on how the music industry and the wider creative industries should approach tackling and preventing sexual harassment and sexual violence, alongside approaches to tackle misogyny and bias. CIISA has been in contact with the French National Centre of Music on their approach as this is clearly a role model for best practice in this area.