Mark Robinson reflects on Arts Council England's quality principles for work with children and young people – are they more useful for planning than measurement? And what happens when primary school children re-write them?
Over the last year I’ve been helping Culture Bridge North East with two phases of a project called EQiIPP (Exploring Quality in Peer Practice, and no, the recruitment slogan wasn’t ‘All we need is a You’.) The first phase paired cultural organisations to explore Arts Council England’s Quality Principles for work with children and young people, the second buddied up an arts organisation or museum with a school. In each phase a question or challenge was identified and a small project or intervention trialled, centred on exploring application of the Quality Principles. I also did some training in coaching techniques to support the peer learning, and because is it’s always useful to people... Keep reading on Thinking Practice
Over the last year I’ve been helping Culture Bridge North East with two phases of a project called EQiIPP (Exploring Quality in Peer Practice, and no, the recruitment slogan wasn’t ‘All we need is a You’.) The first phase paired cultural organisations to explore Arts Council England’s Quality Principles for work with children and young people, the second buddied up an arts organisation or museum with a school. In each phase a question or challenge was identified and a small project or intervention trialled, centred on exploring application of the Quality Principles. I also did some training in coaching techniques to support the peer learning, and because is it’s always useful to people... Keep reading on Thinking Practice