Consultations – Curious Minds

March 20, 2025

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March 20, 2025

Rebalancing the Curriculum

Derri Burdon outlines our response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, highlighting the urgent need to place creativity at the heart of education. She argues that turning ambition into action needs more than vision - it demands leadership, infrastructure and courage.

November 10, 2024

Responding to the Curriculum & Assessment Review

The Curriculum and Assessment Review has been commissioned to make recommendations on potential improvements to the current national curriculum and statutory assessment system in England. This is our opportunity to make sure a renewed focus on the arts and creative experiences, as a key component of a broad and rich curriculum, is backed up with the training, funding and support infrastructure we know the workforce needs to make change effective.

December 8, 2022

Cornerstones of Culture

Culture, heritage and creativity are essential to our future national prosperity, levelling up and recovery from crisis, is the key finding of a new report by the Local Government Association's (LGA) Independent Commission in Culture and Local Government

September 21, 2022

The Cost of Arts Participation Crisis…?

September 2, 2022

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September 2, 2022

The Cost of Living Impact on Cultural Education

May 26, 2022

The Arts in Schools

A new conversation on the value of the arts in and beyond schools.

March 15, 2022

Speaking Up For Culture

Curious Minds is delighted to announce that its Chief Executive, Derri Burdon, has been invited to join the newly established independent Commission on Culture and Local Government.

January 19, 2022

The Case for Culture

Often, conversations around youth leadership understandably focus on the benefit this has for young people. But, behind each of the success stories is a story less often told of the individual adults who have enabled the young people’s success.

October 18, 2021

Tell Us About Your Early Years Arts Provision

Curious Minds is undertaking an audit of experience and skills around Early Years arts and cultural provision.