A new survey by Youth Music has found that the proportion of young people who think of themselves as musical now sits at 55%, a drop of 9% since 2018.
The charity's latest Sound of the Next Generation report also found parental confidence in school music education is very low, with just 11% of parents of under-5s believing their children will get enough of a musical education in school. This tallies with the report’s findings that access to music – particularly in schools – has decreased, and comes in the wake of The State of the Arts report which found arts education is facing a ‘critical challenges’.
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