VAGA welcomes select committee call for more school trips to museums and galleries

31 March 2010

School children in England "are spending less and less time outside" especially on school trips to venues like museums states the Transforming Education Outside the Classroom report, published in March 2010 from the cross-party children, schools and families select committee.

The report recommends that every pupil should have opportunities to visit museums and galleries. VAGA called on the DCSF to increase funding for Learning Outside the Classroom . The committee are of the view that "to ensure that learning outside the classroom is taken seriously by all schools, there should be an individual entitlement within the National Curriculum to at least one out of school visit a term" and "that Ofsted [should] include learning outside the classroom provision—as part of the curriculum—in its inspection framework, and that the department [should] include pupils' access to such activities in the School Report Card."

The select committee report coincided with the DCMS' A Place for Culture: Developing a local culture offer for all children and young people. This is the result of the joint working with DCSF towards a universal cultural offer for young people - manifest mainly in the Find Your Talent Programme. A Place for Culture includes recommendations that the universal cultural offer should be mainstreamed by local authorities and schools and that Arts Council England should undertake a review of funding for cultural education.

Please view the press release on the VAGA website.

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