News – The positive reach of Creative Partnerships

Artists and creative practitioners who work within Creative Partnerships (CP) schools are reporting benefits to their own practice as a result of working with the scheme. Fifty-nine per cent of the 450 practitioners questioned in a study by the Burns Owens Partnership said they had improved their personal creative practice as a direct result of working with CP, which is the first national creative education programme supported by both the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education and Skills.

Forty-six per cent reported that they had developed other work as a direct result of their involvement in the scheme, and practitioners who had been working for less than three years reported the biggest benefits in terms of professional development. The survey also reveals the extent to which CP funding filters out into the wider creative economy. Fifty-four per cent of creative practitioners employ others to work with them on CP projects and those surveyed had, between them, employed over 1,000 other creative practitioners.