Press release - 6 July 2000
NCA breaks through NACCCE embargo

After a year of difficulties facing arts practitioners, teachers, the general public and MPs getting access to the NACCCE report, the National Campaign for the Arts has secured funds to assist with the production of a summary. Funding from both the Paul Hamlyn and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundations will now enable the NCA to directly distribute the report to schools and individual teachers via the major teaching associations.

A year after the report by the National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE) entitled, "All Our Futures" was published there was frustration expressed by those who are still unable to obtain copies of a report that could change the face of arts in the national curriculum. The report is significant in that it holds key messages and proposes a radical revision of the education system, placing creativity at the centre of all subjects.

Victoria Todd, Director of the NCA, commented: "Placing creativity and the arts at the centre of the education system is our first priority. While we are keenly aware of the burdens that teachers are struggling with, we believe that the messages contained within the NACCCE report hold the key to the successful education system of the future. Production of this summary will enable us to get those messages out to everyone concerned with the future education of young people".

Working in association with Professor Ken Robinson, Chairman of NACCCE, the NCA will now be able to produce a 12 page summary which will include a précis of the report and its key recommendations. There has been a great deal of interest in the issues that NACCCE raised and the NCA has established a wide range of contact networks for distributing the summary, including subject associations drawn from the fields of science, technology, commerce and the arts.

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