On 25 June, the government published ‘The power of music to change lives: a national plan for music education’, authored by the Department for Education (DfE) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
The 84-page document was originally due earlier this year, outlining the government’s ambitions for music education between now and 2030.
Read about the key points of the NPME here.
Music education organisations have broadly welcomed the plan, with the Musicians’ Union’s (MU) national organiser for education, Chris Walters, calling its publication ‘a statement that music education matters’ in its ‘cautious’ welcome.
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