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How we are ensuring more children have access to high quality music education

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Music is an important part of education, and it has been proven that it plays a key role in children’s cognitive and social development. This is because it helps with the nurturing of language, motor skills, emotional intelligence, and collaboration …

Funding for arts in schools

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We will have provided £500 million to music and the arts between 2016 and 2020, making it the second highest funded element of the curriculum behind PE. The proportion of young people taking at least one arts GCSE since 2010 has remained broadly stable, with a small increase between 2018 and 2019.