Scotland: Youth work left out of cultural proposal

The Cultural Commission's report, Our Next Major Enterprise, puts forward 124 recommendations, including enshrining cultural rights in law so that everyone in Scotland can take part in cultural life.

The document also proposes introducing a cultural entitlement for schoolchildren.

But a joint statement from arts development officers at YouthLink Scotland, Young Scot and the Scottish Adult Learning Partnership argued that the report failed to mention how informal learning would fit in, despite welcoming its overall emphasis on education and entitlements.

In the statement, the organisations said: "We would have liked young people to be more central to the report's findings."

But a spokesman for the commission said there was no deliberate intention to leave anybody out of the proposals.