The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA)

Upholding and improving standards of behaviour across the creative industries

The Standards

The CIISA Standards set out the minimum standards of behaviour expected across the UK’s creative industries to enable safe and inclusive working environments. This includes preventing and tackling of all forms of bullying and harassment, including discriminatory behaviour.

The Standards provide a framework for a single, unified vision of professional standards of behaviour within the creative industries. They aim to illustrate what a safe and inclusive working environment, which treats people with dignity, looks like, and are scalable to any size of organisation, production or project.

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Our Purpose & Vision

CIISA exists to Protect Creativity and the People who Power it.We work to improve and uphold consistent standards of behaviour across the UK’s world-leading creative industries.

We are an independent standards authority for the UK’s creative sector. CIISA is backed by, but independent from, industry. Currently operating across music, film, television and theatre, CIISA sets clear and consistent expectations for behaviour and supports accountability where those standards are not met.

CIISA Strategy 2026-29