Arts: Education

Department for Education written question – answered at on 28 February 2017.

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Photo of Ian Lavery Ian Lavery Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office), Campaigns and Elections Chair

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the integration of creative arts into mainstream education.

Photo of Nick Gibb Nick Gibb Minister of State (Education)

All schools, including academies and free schools, must provide a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society.

The new National Curriculum, introduced in 2014, sets out the essential knowledge in the key subjects that schools should teach. In Key Stages 1 to 3, music and art and design are statutory subjects for maintained schools. At Key Stage 4, all pupils in maintained schools must be offered the opportunity to study at least one subject in the arts ‘entitlement’ area, which includes art and design, music, dance, drama, and media arts.

Beyond the curriculum, we are investing £300 million of ring-fenced funding in music hubs in 2016-20. This is intended to ensure all children, whatever their background, have access to a high quality music education, including learning to play musical instruments and having the opportunity to play and sing in ensembles.

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