Exceptional Arts Council
Categoric guidance for this is to hand in the Comptroller and Auditor-General's report, where Sir Bruce deals with the assurances given by the Department of Education and Science to the Treasury last November. The DES will need to be satisfied that the Arts Council 'had established a system of finan- cial control to enable it to estimate effec- tively the scale of resources required in each field of grant; the Council should evolVe an "early warning" system to enable it to detect and act upon the financial difficulties of its clients in good time and before they had ac- cumulated unmanageable deficits; and the Council's grants to its clients should be con- ditional on their undertaking to meet the Council's system of financial control.'
In an inflationary world, where every recip- ient of public money screams out for more, why should the Arts Council be placed in a special category with its 'unavoidable moral commitments' as compared with, say, the Central Council for the Disabled?
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