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New funding model, the Youth Music Programme, to launch in November 2011
Youth Music’s new funding model will now be launched in November 2011 following the publication of the National Plan for Music Education. The Youth Music Programme will be focused on developing high quality music provision for children and young people.
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Yorkshire
Welcome to Youth Music’s Yorkshire regional homepage. This is a new site section dedicated to information specific to your region.
Within this region, as with others, there are some key challenges. There are areas of significant deprivation, where opportunities for children and young people to engage in the arts are severely limited. There is coastal and rural deprivation which has steadily become quite extreme and is beginning to get attention from the Government, who recently have been discussing and highlighting both coastal and rural deprivation as a key issue for the forthcoming years.
The last census of Yorkshire stated that there were:-
29,2030 children between 0 - 4
32,1954 children aged between 5 – 9
33,6487 young people aged between 10 – 14
31,9987 young people aged between 15 – 19
There are large numbers of unemployed or underemployed musicians and artists and yet some areas are lacking in specialist expertise such as singing. Yorkshire also encompasses some of the most rural and diverse wards in the country, such as North Yorkshire. This means that specific work must be undertaken to ensure that access to music is available in these communities and that links, networks and partnerships need to be supported in order to achieve success in that work.
Youth Music’s policy from 2005-10 focuses upon 5 priorities: early years; singing; transition between primary and secondary school; young people at risk; workforce development.
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