Parts of the Cultural Heritage Blueprint, the document setting out recommendations for the development of the sector's workforce over the next 10 years, are to be updated.

The Museums Association (MA) will work alongside Creative and Cultural Skills (CCS) - the sector skills council - to revise the blueprint amid recent changes within the industry.

The original document was published in 2008 by the MA and the Cultural Heritage Skills Advisory Panel and identified issues such as a need for "increased leadership".

MA director Mark Taylor said: "CCS has asked the MA to update the blueprint to address museum priorities and ensure it reflects the current economic and political climate we are operating in now.

"We hope to publish the update in April so that the key issue of workforce development can be up-to-date, prominent and well thought out in any strategies that are being developed and disseminated in the coming year."

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