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The Department for Children, Schools and Families and the DCMS should promote opportunities for every child and teacher of art “to work in an art gallery, or with an artist, craft worker or designer as part of their cultural entitlement”, the Office of Standards in Education (Ofsted) has recommended. In its report, ‘Drawing together: art, craft and design in schools’, Ofsted also said that the National Archive of Children’s Art, Craft and Design should be developed and that the departments should “consider dedicating a national gallery space to the creative achievements of children and young people in England”. Additionally, head teachers should develop sustained partnerships between schools, creative industries, galleries and artists in order to increase pupils’ first-hand experience of art, and art teachers should ensure the provision of “first-hand experience and enrichment outside lessons”. An Ofsted report on music teaching in schools, ‘Making more of music’, notes that despite increased government funding and support, “there is a danger that the funds will not have been used effectively because... initiatives are being developed in isolation and without enough shared consideration of the more serious challenges facing music education”.