Designers call for return of 1980s enterprise policies
A campaign to bring back Margaret Thatcher’s Enterprise Allowance Scheme, which paid people a weekly allowance to come off the dole and start a new business, has been augmented by calls to reinstate the Design Advisory Service consultancy scheme and appoint a design minister.Frank Peters, chief executive of the Chartered Society of Designers, says having a dedicated design minister would give design the higher political status it had in the 1980s, and allow it to lead the ...
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