Arts Council England’s Let’s Create Strategy 2020-2030 recognises the importance of early years and, through its various funding streams, already supports a range of activity for Early Years children (defined as children aged 0-5 years old) and their families. However, it also knows that access to culture and creativity remains unequal and that complex barriers to access and participation prevent some families from taking part at all.
CREC has been commissioned by The Arts Council (Midlands region) to help it quickly consolidate what it knows about the current state of creative and cultural provision for Early Years children and their families in the Midlands so that it can take an informed approach to where and how it might target development work most effectively in the future.
As the first part of the mapping process they are asking all organisations & individuals (in the early years, creative and cultural, sectors) working in the Midlands region to complete this: online survey.
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This research will help in advocating to Arts Council Midlands that there needs to be more support for children 5 and under, and their families, to engage in quality arts and culture at such a critical time of their lives.