CIISA Annual Report 2024-2025 - Flipbook - Page 3
View from the Chair
It is my great pleasure and privilege to be
CIISA’s Chair, a role I assumed during the
dynamic period of organisational growth and
development covered by this report.
Thank you to founding Chair,
the irrepressible Dame Heather
Rabbatts. Her love of the creative
industries and determination
that everyone must be held
accountable for their behaviour
in the workplace – irrespective of
their seniority or power – led to
the creation of CIISA.
Baroness Helena Kennedy KC LT
CIISA has a clear sense of purpose:
it is here to raise standards, rebuild
trust, and close the accountability
gap that has persisted for too
long in the creative industries.
The simple fact is people want
and need an independent body
to which they can turn – even
anonymously – for advice. The fear
that there will be consequences
for making a complaint are too
great for those, often freelancers,
who have little power up against
established figures.
CIISA’s role as an independent
body is to augment other
structures in a positive way. It will
support more organisations to
adopt a consistent level of good
practice and provide an essential
backstop for where processes or
reporting mechanisms either don’t
exist or have failed. CIISA offers the
creative industries – for the first
time – the opportunity to identify
and stop serial perpetrators
working across multiple projects
and hirers. This is an urgent and
essential intervention.
The strategic focus for 2025/26 is
to continue engaging positively
and constructively with partners
at every level across the creative
industries to make it happen.
Bullying, harassment and
discriminatory behaviour have no
place in the creative industries.
We are grateful to the many
partners who are supporting
CIISA and demonstrating their
commitment to protecting the
brilliant people who power British
creativity; in doing so they are
shifting the paradigm.
As Chair I want to thank the CIISA
team and my fellow Board for
their committed and diligent work
throughout 2024/25.
CIISA ANNUAL REPORT 2024/25
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