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The National Plan for Music Education: how to meet its aims

With the arrival of Hub Lead Organisations, Dr Liz Stafford considers how the sector can work together to achieve core goals of the National Plan for Music Education
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September seemingly marked the beginning of a brave new world for music hubs, with new Hub Lead Organisations (HLOs) in place covering new geographical areas … Except, of course, it didn’t. The ‘new’ hubs are by and large being run by the same organisations that are now expected to deliver more stuff, over larger areas with (in real terms) less money; and all of this without the ability to forward plan, thanks to yet another short-term funding deal. As pretty much everyone in the sector has said from the start, it is difficult to see how these changes were designed to make things better for children and young people.

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