Music Manifesto

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The Music Manifesto is a government-supported campaign to improve young people's music education in the United Kingdom based on an agreed strategy and set of priorities.

[edit] History

The Music Manifesto came about as a result of a collaboration between two government departments (the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)) and a wide range of music organisations, musicians, teachers, composers, the music industry, broadcasting, teacher and musicians' unions, arts and education charities and Trusts.

It was developed through three seminars led by David Miliband MP, the School Standards Minister. An internet discussion board was set up to allow ongoing discussion and input was sought from the Music Advanced Skills Teachers network and the wider National Music Education Forum.

The Music Manifesto offers a strategic direction for the future of music education and a common agenda for joint action.

[edit] Aims

The Music Manifesto's principal aims are:

to act as a statement of common intent that helps align currently disparate activity.
to set out a shared agenda for future planning across the sector.
to make it easier for more organisations and individuals to see how they can contribute to music education.
to guide Government's own commitment to music education.
to call on the wider community, including the public, private and community sectors, to join in enriching the lives of schoolchildren.

[edit] External links

The Music Manifesto website

Youth Music, the UK charity which provides music making opportunities for young people aged 0-18 with least opportunity is a Music Manifesto signatory