Schools: Creative Subjects and the English Baccalaureate Debate
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Lord Cashman
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Schools: Creative Subjects and the English Baccalaureate
Lord Cashman Excerpts(2 years, 8 months ago)
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Baroness Barran (Con)
Citizenship education is absolutely a core part of what we deliver. In defence of the White Paper, we were setting out the major new elements of our plan for the next several years, but citizenship remains a core part of it.
Lord Cashman (Lab)
My Lords, first-hand experience of the arts can be life enhancing and life changing. Therefore, will the Minister encourage her department to do all it can to ensure that background and income levels are not a barrier to physically accessing the arts?
Baroness Barran (Con)
To the extent that it is within my gift, I will do my best.