Nearly £162m additional funding is needed for music education over the next five years, according to a report published on 4 February.
‘Facing the Music: meeting the ambitions of the National Plan for Music Education’, written by Billy Huband-Thompson and Alice Dawson, was commissioned by the cross-party think tank Demos in partnership with The UK Association for Music Education, Music Mark. Over the course of its 47 pages, it outlines the costs of delivering the refreshed National Plan for Music Education (NPME2) and the challenges that need to be overcome in the process.
The report estimates that over the course of the next five years, an additional £161.4m (£32.3m per annum) will need to be found to cover new and hidden costs of regional music hubs, partnerships of music services, music departments, venues, clubs and other organisations.
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