How we will work to make change happen from April 2022 -2023
1: Leadership.
Culture and education sector professionals will value, engage with and support leadership development across all roles and at all career levels. Cultural sector learning and engagement professionals will be equipped and empowered to influence positive change and innovation in their work with children and young people. Learning professionals will be confident leaders and advocates of arts and culture, increasing the level and quality of cultural education and experiences for children and young people. Children and young people will be supported to develop their leadership, to be ambassadors for arts and culture, and to have a voice and agency to influence decisions that affect them. From April 2022 we will achieve this by:
- Providing a programme of early, mid-career and advanced level leadership development courses for arts and culture professionals working in engagement and participation that will support the diversity of the cultural sector leadership.
- Running a programme of conventions, seminars and workshops where cultural leaders explore, debate and make plans to address the current challenges for leadership.
- Providing open access and targeted training programmes, for education leaders, individual teachers, and for networks of schools, to develop confident creative leaders and advocates for arts and culture.
- Ensuring there are opportunities for children and young people to have agency as leaders of arts and cultural and to influence activity and strategic decision making.
2: Place Based Developments / Cultural Communities
Place based partnerships are providing connectivity locally, regionally and nationally through ambitious collaborations that are sustainable and develop high quality cultural opportunities for children and young people. We will do this by:
3: Arts, Education and Cultural Learning
Arts, cultural and education sectors value, engage with, and develop innovative quality practice in and through arts and creativity. This is available to all children and young people both in and beyond the curriculum and in both formal and informal spaces and places. We will do this by:
4: Digital and film
Culture and education sector professionals will engage with digital technologies and practices confidently and creatively to enhance arts and cultural learning, to provide access to and interpretation of collections, exhibitions and performances and to embrace risk taking in the production of work with, by and for children and young people. We will do this by:
5: Creative Careers, Progression and employability
Children and young people will develop their creative potential to have the aspiration and confidence to achieve employment in the cultural and creative industries, particularly for those who are currently underrepresented. The education sector, careers providers, and cultural organisations are supporting and nurturing the early stages of the creative talent pipeline ensuring that children, young people, teachers, advisers, parents and carers understand the opportunities for employment in the arts, cultural and creative sectors. We will do this by: