• All children should have the chance to make music.
• We need more leaders to enable more opportunities.

To ensure young people are getting the best music making experience, Youth Music needs to play an active role in encouraging and supporting musicians to become better music leaders, equipped to meet the demands of a changing music education landscape.

Youth Music seeks to be seen as a proactive and trusted force, which is:

• Informed about training and development of music leaders issues and is tackling them in an open, inclusive and above all practical way
• Working across the youth, music, education, community and learning sectors encouraging a partnership approach to workforce development

Youth Music is investing significant funds to address this issue.

• To enable music leaders to develop their skills and practice
• To encourage new music leaders into the sector
• To improve standards of music making activity
• To increase the understanding of working practices across and between the music, youth, education and learning communities
• To increase financial investment in workforce development from external sources