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Music national plan to come ‘early next year’, guided by panel and consultation report

Only 8.2 per cent of consultation respondents believe that ‘high quality’ music education is currently ‘available to all children’.
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The government has published a consultation report and appointed an ‘expert advisory panel’ to inform its National Plan for Music Education (NPME), which will be published ‘early next year’.

An updated NMPE is long-awaited, with the current plan dating back to 2011 and no confirmed date for a new version from the Department for Education (DfE) and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), co-publishers of the document.

Based on a call for evidence run by the DfE between 9 February 2020 and 15 March 2020, the now-published consultation report summarises 5,191 responses, which the government says will help inform the next NPME. 

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