18 December 2023 Policy and Practice Round-up December 2023 This month we bring you updates on new arts teacher recruitment data; a new House of Lords report calling for more creative subjects in schools; 11 key facts about England’s education system; and a parliamentary report on how the arts can support mental health in schools and the latest PISA results.
18 December 2023 Legacies – in remembrance of those we lost in 2023 and what we learned from them At the close of the year we are thinking about colleagues and artists we have lost and the legacies they leave behind. Four figures in particular have had a huge impact, all in very different ways.
11 December 2023 CLA is recruiting new Trustees CLA champions a right to arts and culture for every child. It uses evidence to demonstrate the ways in which an arts-rich education provides skills for life and skills for work, enabling all children to fulfil their potential. Working with educators, arts education practitioners and policy makers, it aims to create positive and sustained shifts in arts and cultural learning access, opportunities and experiences, and in national policy, infrastructure and funding. Working on behalf of its members, CLA is actively inclusive and applies a social justice lens to all its activity.
28 November 2023 The future of creative and cultural skills Pauline Tambling reflects on the closure of Creative & Cultural Skills. We hear this week that Creative & Cultural Skills is to close. This marks another loss for the Sector Skills Council world, which for almost two decades has helped put industry at the heart of influencing national skills and employment policy.
28 November 2023 How to make primary schools ‘arts-rich’ Pat Thomson and Chris Hall from the University of Nottingham have written for CLA about their research into arts-rich primary schools, funded by Freelands Foundation.
28 November 2023 Policy and Practice Round-up November 2023 This month we bring you updates on the cabinet reshuffle; new findings on cuts to school funding; new findings on young people’s mental health, and an opportunity to apply to be a Trustee of CLA.
30 October 2023 Policy and Practice Round-up October 2023 This month we bring you Ofsted’s latest subject review findings on Music and Dance; what the idea for the Advanced British Standard might mean for post-16 education in England; new teacher training bursaries for arts subjects; CLA’s latest work with the sports education sector; changes to the CLA; and an opportunity to apply to be a trustee of CLA.
30 October 2023 What if ‘imagination’ was one of our education system’s key outcomes for young people? As we finalise our GE2024 Manifesto Asks, we are inviting colleagues to share their views on some of our Asks for the future, and their perspectives on past progress. This month we are looking back to Joe Hallgarten’s 2008 observations on an arts entitlement, and reflections on a vision for a sustained engagement with high quality culture that could help to shape a great childhood – with children being seen as arts creators and leaders, as well as audiences and participants.
20 September 2023 Policy and Practice Round-up September 2023 This month we bring you news from the government on their ‘Enrichment Partnerships’ pilot; new research on how the cost of living crisis is affecting young people’s access to arts education; findings on the amount of arts teaching in schools delivered by non-experts; a new campaign to change policy on young people’s access to theatre; a mass survey of young people for the policy changes they want to see; and reporting on the widespread closure of art colleges across England.
20 September 2023 What does CLA want to see in upcoming party manifestos? Our draft election Manifesto Asks for GE2024 CLA works to collect and amplify the voice of the cultural learning sector to inform debate and push for change on education policy. With a General Election slated for the middle of 2024, we have been busy consulting with the sector to understand the challenges it currently faces and the policy change it wants to see in order to ensure all young people can access a high quality expressive arts education.