Teachers have condemned the ‘decimation’ of creative subjects at the National Education Union conference 2024.
This follows a recent motion that teachers across the UK passed calling for damage to arts education ‘ caused by government intervention since 2010’ to be urgently addressed at the NEU conference.
Called Creativity in the curriculum, the motion also instructs the NEU to push for sector-wise curriculum reform to ‘identify the loss of arts resources from schools and what funding is required to replace them’.
Northumberland arts teacher Sarah Kilpatrick proposed the topic at the conference, warning that ‘the arts have been stolen from those who need them most’.
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