Funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and with support from the network of former Bridge organisations, the roundtables, case studies and report have been facilitated by A New Direction, London’s leading not-for-profit organisation generating opportunities for children and young people to develop their creativity.
The report’s findings was presented online to an invited audience of arts and education leaders on 30 March 2023. Speakers included: Dame Alison Peacock, Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching; David Bryan CBE, Founder & Director of Xtend (UK) Ltd and Chair of Art Council England’s London Area Council; and Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, who called the report “utterly comprehensive, authoritative, bleak, but also agenda-setting”.
