First phase of cultural passport scheme expected in autumn
Online record of cultural engagement was one recommendation from the Henley review
Arts Council England (ACE) is working with Trinity College London to develop a cultural passport, one of the recommendations of the Henley Review, and will roll out the first phase of the scheme this autumn.
The passport is likely to provide an online service for children and young people, which will record, share and review their engagement with cultural activities both in and out of school.
It is nearly a year since the Henley Review was published and the government issued its response, and some of its recommendations are now being implemented.
The Cultural Education Partnership Group (CEPG), established last March to take on some of these recommendations, has now met five times and is working on a number of developments.
These include a regional film education programme launched by the British Film Institute (BFI) last month, and English Heritage's £3m heritage schools scheme to link schools with local museums, archives, civic societies and history groups.
The CEPG is concentrating on Bristol, Barking and Dagenham, and Great Yarmouth – identified as areas of low engagement with culture and a high proportion of deprived children and young people – to pilot a shared approach towards activities and resources.
A spokesman for ACE said: “A good start has been made in the pilot areas, and the CEPG is concentrating on joining up projects and getting better value through partnership working. All of the pilot areas will test local approaches to this work.”
Currently running in 36 schools in the pilot areas, the heritage schools scheme will be expanded from April to include Leicester, North Tyneside and Manchester – with a total of 150 schools involved by 2015.
English Heritage has appointed QA research and Culture-Evaluation-Learning to evaluate the programme, the first phase of which will be completed by the end of March.
The 2013-14 programme will feature the development of new resources for the world war one commemoration.
The members of the CEPG include Althea Efunshile, Laura Gander-Howe, Hannah Fouracre, Joyce Wilson, Simon Jutton and Lindsey Pugh from the arts council; Nikki Christie from the BFI; Sandra Stancliffe and Lois Gyves from English Heritage; and Jo Reilly from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Update
25.02.2013
We asked the Department for Education (DoE) what was the status of the national plan for cultural education, as recommended in the Henley Report. They missed the deadline for the piece, but a DoE spokeswoman has since told us: "We are developing a Cultural Education Plan which will be published later in the year."
The passport is likely to provide an online service for children and young people, which will record, share and review their engagement with cultural activities both in and out of school.
It is nearly a year since the Henley Review was published and the government issued its response, and some of its recommendations are now being implemented.
The Cultural Education Partnership Group (CEPG), established last March to take on some of these recommendations, has now met five times and is working on a number of developments.
These include a regional film education programme launched by the British Film Institute (BFI) last month, and English Heritage's £3m heritage schools scheme to link schools with local museums, archives, civic societies and history groups.
The CEPG is concentrating on Bristol, Barking and Dagenham, and Great Yarmouth – identified as areas of low engagement with culture and a high proportion of deprived children and young people – to pilot a shared approach towards activities and resources.
A spokesman for ACE said: “A good start has been made in the pilot areas, and the CEPG is concentrating on joining up projects and getting better value through partnership working. All of the pilot areas will test local approaches to this work.”
Currently running in 36 schools in the pilot areas, the heritage schools scheme will be expanded from April to include Leicester, North Tyneside and Manchester – with a total of 150 schools involved by 2015.
English Heritage has appointed QA research and Culture-Evaluation-Learning to evaluate the programme, the first phase of which will be completed by the end of March.
The 2013-14 programme will feature the development of new resources for the world war one commemoration.
The members of the CEPG include Althea Efunshile, Laura Gander-Howe, Hannah Fouracre, Joyce Wilson, Simon Jutton and Lindsey Pugh from the arts council; Nikki Christie from the BFI; Sandra Stancliffe and Lois Gyves from English Heritage; and Jo Reilly from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Update
25.02.2013
We asked the Department for Education (DoE) what was the status of the national plan for cultural education, as recommended in the Henley Report. They missed the deadline for the piece, but a DoE spokeswoman has since told us: "We are developing a Cultural Education Plan which will be published later in the year."