Fostering cultural opportunity

The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the DCMS have published a paper emphasising the importance of local authorities in providing cultural opportunities for young people outside schools. ‘A Place for Culture: Developing a local culture offer for all children and young people’, asserts that “the role of Government is not to provide culture experiences for young people but to create the conditions in which local partnerships can flourish”. The study examines the positive effects that culture can have on young people, drawing on a number of individual case studies and documenting the DCSF’s attempts to cement a “universal cultural offer” as part of every child’s life.

http://www.culture.gov.uk