Last month (February 2008) I talked at the Scottish Cultural Summit in Edinburgh. I talked about how it might be useful to question current uses of the idea of participation in the Arts. I also ran a workshop reviewing the impact of Creative Partnerships. I used the opportunity of being in Edinburgh to try to develop an initiative comparing creative education initiatives across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales looking at how such ideas have been imagined and implemented at policy level and in practice. Hopefully more on this soon.