Latest press releases

25 March 2011
Clore Duffield Arts Donation
Duffield’s millions are welcome but should not be a sticking plaster for the removal of Government funding for young people’s arts education, says leading arts education charity.

31 January 2011
Creative Partnerships boosts teachers’ skills and career progression
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Creative Partnerships has a profound impact on teachers’ professional development and supports career progression, according to new independent research from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).

19 January 2011
Story Catching – A fairytale way of capturing Early Years education projects
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Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) is helping to share good practice and inject arts and creativity into early years education through its new Story Catching project.

24 November 2010
The Importance of Teaching, The Schools White Paper 2010 – Reaction from Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE)
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Joe Hallgarten, Director of Cultural Programmes for arts education charity, Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), commenting on The Schools White Paper 2010 said: "Whilst we welcome a review of the National Curriculum, the Government must be careful that a ’slimmed down’ curriculum doesn’t ultimately pin down schools to an even narrower, centrally-prescribed set of priorities."

26 October 2010
Arts Council England funding settlement - Reaction from Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE)
Commenting on Arts Council England’s funding settlement to arts education charity Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) of £19m for 2011/12, Paul Collard, Chief Executive of CCE, said: "The £19m grant that ACE has offered CCE for 2011/12 will enable us to complete the Creative Partnerships projects already planned for the 2,000 schools currently engaged with the programme."

20 October 2010
Creative Partnerships programme cut in Spending Review - Reaction from Creativity, Culture and Education
Commenting on the Government’s announcement today to withdraw funding from the Creative Partnerships programme, Paul Collard, Chief Executive of arts education charity Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), said: "We are obviously very disappointed with the decision to withdraw funding from the Creative Partnerships creative learning programme which has benefitted over 1 million young people and thousands of schools across the country.

7 October 2010
Are pupils Well Versed? New programme is set to encourage high-quality poetry teaching in schools
Do school children know their Beowulf from their Revolting Rhymes? How can teachers feel better equipped to inspire children to write their own poems? These are a couple of the questions arts education charity Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) hope to address with Well Versed, a new national programme which aims to transform the way poetry is taught in schools by involving poets in the professional development of teachers.

14 September 2010
Creative Partnerships education programme is expected to generate nearly £4 billion positive benefit for the economy
New independent research from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) reveals that Creative Partnerships, the government’s flagship creative learning programme for schools, is expected to generate nearly £4 billion net positive benefit for the UK economy.

23 July 2010
Young people join together in final celebration of the Find Your Talent programmme
Young people from across England have come together at London’s Southbank Centre in a final celebration of the Find Your Talent programme.

18 June 2010
Arts Council England £19 million cuts - CCE's reaction
Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) comments on the £1.6 million of cuts passed onto national charity CCE by the Arts Council England.