Last week the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles introduced the

In late November we published an article on the headlines of the

Over the last few weeks organisations and schools across the country have been holding Big Link Up events to celebrate and debate the future of cultural learning. Findings and ideas are already winging their way back to us and the skeleton of our national strategy is starting to take shape.

Earlier in November the Secretary of State for Education allocated £110 million to establish an

‘The Importance of Teaching’, the

Organisations across the country are getting their plans in place to join the Big Link Up, with events taking place from Nottingham to Newcastle and Birmingham to Bath, to name just a few! Check the

Last week all Government departments published their business plans for 2011-2015.

Arts Council England (ACE) has been all over the news over the last few weeks, and there has been a great deal of coverage of their new plans to distribute regular funding. In this post we aim to unpack what some of this means for the cultural learning sector, looking in detail at the strategic goal for children and young people.

Last month we published some key headlines related to the

This month the CLA submitted our thoughts and ideas to the