20 February 2023 Policy and Practice round-up February 2023 This month’s round-up includes the government’s annual report on young people’s wellbeing and mental health; a report on creativity in STEM subjects; a new campaign to broaden the secondary curriculum; the CLA’s submission for the government’s spring budget; a report on how schools responded to the second year of the pandemic; and an editorial in The Guardian on the need for greater investment in arts education.
20 February 2023 Arts recruitment and retention The 1st of February saw the largest teacher strikes in a generation. 300,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) exchanged the classroom for picket lines and demonstrations across England.