Music industry experts will help shape the future of music education, as the Government sets to refresh the blueprint that promotes equal music opportunities
To help reflect advances in technology in the way music is created, recorded and produced, as and to reassess the music education young people benefit from at school, the Department for Education is today (Sunday 9 February) inviting views from musicians, specialist teachers, young people and their parents about their experience and what they want to see in the National Plan for Music Education.
The plan will help level up opportunities for children from all backgrounds to take part in musical education, including the chance to learn how to play an instrument, perform in a choir or band, and develop a lifelong love of music.
School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said:
Chief Executive of the Arts Council, Dr Darren Henley said:
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber said:
This builds on the recently announced £85million for a further year of our current music and arts programmes, including music hubs, and is in addition to the manifesto commitment to offer an ‘arts premium’ to secondary schools to allow young people to learn creative skills and widen their horizons.
The refreshed National Plan will be published in autumn 2020 and will build on the current plan which was first published in 2011, which sets out our ambitious vision for music education for all children in England. The plan established the music education hubs – a network working in and beyond schools to give children the opportunity to sing and learn instruments.
The Call for Evidence includes specific questions on areas experts have told us are particularly important, including SEND and inclusivity, music technology and the music education hubs. The responses and experiences put forward will help inform changes to the plan which will then be fully consulted on.