Back in June 2024, Drama & Theatre reported on The Council for Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre (CDMT) and the launch of its manifesto for performing arts education. Just over six months on, Rhianna Elsden catches up with Director of the CDMT Glyndwr Jones, and Emily Maloney, co-author of the manifesto alongside Jones, to find out more about the detail and progress already under way to realise its aims.
Glyndwr Jones: Crucially, our All-Party Parliamentary Group for Performing Arts Education and Training, for which CDMT is secretariat, met at Westminster on 15 January 2025 with discussions focusing on: the implementation of CDMT's manifesto recommendations; our robust response to the Department for Education's consultation on the curriculum (November 2024), and recent contributions to parliamentary debates in both the House of Commons and House of Lords.
The latter particularly focused on CDMT's successful campaign to counter the inclusion of Trinity College London's professional performing arts diplomas in the government's new VAT policy and our instigation of a debate on creative arts education at the Commons on 18 December 2024, led by Jess Brown-Fuller MP. There was also a creative industries debate at the House of Lords on 6 February 2025 at which CDMT's Chair, Lady Wilcox spoke.
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