The first is – just do it. Your responses and ideas will help. Try to find a way to contribute ideas in the ‘Other’ boxes. Ideas are needed.

The second is that effective questionnaires need to be designed by specialists – and this is not. A missed opportunity.

A lot of it is mainly designed to coach our perspectives in what a hard job local authority arts provision has and how stretched it is. We do know all that. But far too much space in the questionnaire is directed to this self-serving and defensive end – paralysing the responder as much as it paralyses the officers’ inspiration.

Time for some ‘blue skies thinking’.

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