Training and personal development is getting a vast range of people through our current crisis – and with any luck, we’ll all come out the other side with more skills and capabilities than before.
For broadcasters, they’re responsible for entertaining most of the home-bound population still needing entertainment and news, though many have been furloughed and the large proportion of freelancers responsible for creating television and radio are facing an uncertain period.
National body ScreenSkills, which supports development in the UK’s leading film, TV and animation industries, has announced it will use its resources and connections to provide a free package of remote training, workshops, talks and networking for the coming weeks.
“We know the big worry for many freelancers right now is the impact of lost jobs and income due to the Covid-19 crisis,” said its Chief Executive, Seetha Kumar.
“We thought it was important to play our part in making sure the industry and its workers stay as resilient as is possible in the circumstances. So we have built a range of online sessions – some offer practical guidance on issues such as employment law, others on skills from pitching and development to managing teams and others offering useful industry insights from executives, creatives and commissioners that we hope will be helpful for your return to work when it comes. Still others are just to help you get through the day.
“It’s a programme developed in haste with enormous support from our colleagues across the industry and will evolve in coming weeks. But it is being shared in a spirit of all doing what we can to support the amazing screen industries workforce during this hiatus in production.”
