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Five hours a week of quality art and culture for
every child
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Why a Cultural Offer?
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The idea of a cultural offer has been growing
in momentum
2004 Every Child Matters Five hours a week
sports offer Spending Review 2005 Cultural
Hubs DCMS Five Year Plan 2006 Ofsted
Inspection of Creative Partnerships Creativity
Review 2007 Childrens Plan These policies have
built on a range of local and national
initiatives
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and we now have a working definition

• A comprehensive cultural offer.will ensure that
  all children and young people, no matter where
  they live or what their background, have the
  chance to engage in at least five hours of high
  quality culture a week in and out of school.

• learning in and about culture helping young
  people develop as critical spectators,
  participants and creators in the cultural world
  around them
• learning through culture using engagement with
  the arts and other activities to boost
  creativity, attainment and personal development

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There are many motives for creating a cultural
offer of a minimum of five hours a week

• to bring coherence to existing initiatives
• to engage more people aged 0-19 in more high
  quality cultural experiences
• to provide opportunities for young people to
  engage with creative practitioners
• to develop transferable creative and personal
  skills, and a lifelong interest in culture
• to support all five Every Child Matters outcomes
• to identify and develop talent
• to support pathways into the creative industries
• to prevent cultural apartheid

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What will the Cultural Offer look like?
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A diverse range of experiences can develop
informed spectators, participants and creators
Culturally Productive
Culturally Aware, Knowledgeable and Literate
My Cultural Offer
A Cultural Leader
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Defining culture is complex. Our starting point
is the following range of cultural activities
architecture
attending
crafts
learning
dance
listening
My Cultural Offer
film
making
galleries
playing
libraries
producing
museums
reflecting
music
using
theatre
visiting
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Defining the cultural offer

• Regional Contact Group joint definition for
  London cultural agencies of the London CYP
  cultural offer

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The Pathfinders
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The Government has given 25 Million over the
next three years to discover whether a national
cultural offer is realistic, desirable and
affordable

• Ten Pilot programmes, running for up to three
  years
• Aim to bring additional energy, expertise and
  resources to existing activities
• Programme areas are smaller and larger than a
  single Local Authority
• The pilot programmes are underpinned by formative
  evaluation

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The pathfinder programme will test a variety of
local approaches in the run up to the next
Spending Review

• Stage 1 National auditing Jan April 2008
• Stage 2 Selection of pilots Feb April 2008
• Stage 3 Detailed pilot planning May August
  2008
  and scrutiny
• Stage 4 Pilot delivery and Sept 2008 March
  2011 evaluation
• Stage 5 Creation of proposal Jan 2009 March
  2010 for national cultural
  offer
• Stage 6 Spending review Summer 2009 (tbc)
• Stage 7 Business planning for Sept 09 March
  11 (tbc) national cultural
  offer
• Stage 8 National cultural April 2011 (tbc)
  offer begins

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Beyond the Pathfinders programme

• 141 expressions of interest, 37 in the London
  region
• Many more than 10 high quality bids
• National programme of support for auditing,
  evaluation and work with SSAT and national
  organisations
• Regional programme of support run by the
  Regional Contact Group for LAs Cultural and CYP
  Services and cultural organisations
• Link to Cultural Services Improvement Programme

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London Beyond the Pathfinders programme

• Universal offer to improve efficiency and share
  best practice
• Events, training days, best practice networks and
  mentoring/action learning opportunities including
  placements
• Toolkit and training for culture, childrens
  services and cultural institutions on joined up
  working and quality
• Strategic working between cultural agencies and
  alignment to other programmes, audit and data
  gathering

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Outcomes

• More joined up working across Culture and CYP
  services and with cultural institutions
• More strategic working between agencies and
  alignment to other programmes
• Improved capacity to provide services for CYP
• Better understanding of quality, and better
  quality services for children

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Contact

• MLA London
• Sam Cairns
• Development Manager Learning and Skills
• 020 7549 1704 Samantha.cairns_at_mlalondon.org.uk
• Arts Council England, London
• Abigail Moss
• Director, Children and Young People's Strategy
  020 7608 6114
• abigail.moss_at_artscouncil.org.uk