CHEAD welcomes the appointment of Elizabeth Crump, MBE and Leila D'Aronville FRSA as the Government’s new Freelance Champions.
The Government has appointed Leila D’Aronville and Lizzie Crump to the newly created role of Freelance Champions advocating for the creative industry’s 703,000 self-employed and working to make sure their voices shape future policy. Leila and Lizzie are both freelancers themselves, bringing a combined 40 years of experience representing the creative industries.
The appointees will support industry’s work to address the findings of the Good Work Review, a major review into working conditions across the sectors, which highlighted issues with unpaid work, limited opportunities for professional development, and difficult working environments, as well as reporting high levels of job satisfaction, flexibility and autonomy.
They will be supported by Dave O’Brien, Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Manchester, who joins the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on an academic secondment to provide research support. Their terms of reference are published on gov.uk.
CHEAD welcomes the announcement and will be working alongside the champions to promote the Freelance Education Framework (FEF) developed with the Freelancer Club.
CHEAD Members can get involved by visiting the following link:
