ARTS IN SCHOOLS!

"Because of the Department for Education’s school accountability systems, many schools are reducing the numbers of hours, teachers, subjects and choices on offer. This risks strangling the talent pipeline to the creative industries and robbing children of the social mobility and opportunities that the arts offer. There is a real risk that the benefits of studying the arts will become the preserve of only those who can pay for it."

Bacc for the Future, the Cultural Learning Alliance and What Next have produced a helpful Arts in Schools toolkit which everyone who is passionate about creativity, culture and the arts should read.

If this matters to you, get in touch with your local authority, your local MP or the Schools Commissioners Network to tell them why the arts in schools really matter. You can also contact Ministers and MPs on Select Committees in central government to make the case for the arts in schools and tell them this is important to you. The toolkit gives you everything you need to make that case.