All Our Futures

The National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE) was established in February 1998 by the Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It aimed to advise the Secretaries of State of both departments on the creative and cultural development of young people through both formal and informal education. The committee's report, All Our Futures, was published in May 1999.

The National Campaign for the Arts has published the following summary of the NACCCE report with the kind support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Printed copies of the summary can be obtained from the NCA office on payment of £5 (including postage and packing).

Ken Robinson, Chairman of NACCCE, said, "On behalf of the National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education I am extremely grateful to the NCA for arranging the publication and distribution of the summary of All Our Futures. The Government has rightly emphasises the necessity of effective programmes of creative and cultural education alongside raising standards in literacy and numeracy. All Our Futures says why this is essential and how it can be done. The powerful endorsement of the report by so many organisations across and beyond education underlines the need for vigorous action to implement its recommendations."

To download the NCA summary, please click here