Department for Culture Media and Sport
youth cultural offer
Why is arts education important?
Arts education stimulates pupils’ imagination and motivates their interest in learning, which helps them to achieve more. It can also lead to a lifelong love of the arts and encourage young people to choose creative careers.
Our objectives
- everyone gets the chance to experience and participate in the arts, inside and outside school
- everyone has the opportunity to deepen their interest and fully develop their artistic talent
- our most talented young artists have access to the best tuition and are supported to fulfil their potential
- there is a skilled workforce in the arts sector, including world class arts education staff
Children and Young People’s Culture team
This team brings together a range of government funded programmes from DCMS and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) offering cultural experiences to children and young people. The joint team:
- provides a single delivery framework
- creates powerful new cross-cultural opportunities
- allows us to share knowledge learnt from the different programmes
- helps realise our vision for a universal culture offer
- strengthens working arrangements across the two departments
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Programmes
We carry through our objectives of by providing children and young people with opportunities to aim high and develop their creative talent, through:
These programmes all contribute to the comprehensive culture offer we want to develop for children and young people in the future.
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Other projects we support
A Night Less Ordinary from Arts Council England - free theatre tickets to under 26 year olds
Young People’s Participatory Theatre from Arts Council England
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