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'We've Got To Rebuild Our Credit'Posted at 7:38AM Monday 14 Apr 2008 When Alan Davey walked into Arts Council England in February as its new head, the organisation was emerging gingerly from what can only be described as a shambolic winter. The funding settlement it had handed out over Christmas to arts organisations had been denounced by a hot-headed meeting of actors and directors, including Sam West and Kevin Spacey, who passed a vote of no confidence in the council after it was argued that its ruinous funding cuts had been based on false figures and incomplete information. This led to much head-scratching about what, in fact, the arts council - a heavily staffed, expensive, bureaucratic organisation renowned for its office politics and lugubrious internal battles - is really for.
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