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Today we publish our Report Card 2026 providing a crucial snapshot of the arts education landscape, enabling us to see the consequences of previous governments prioritising non-arts subjects through school performance measures.
Our key findings:
CLA Research Spotlight: early October 2026
Professor Pat Thomson, CLA’s Senior Evidence Associate, examines a study from the US which investigates how school leaders’ views of Arts education changes once they actually have more of it in their school.
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CLA Latest Thinking | Building Partnerships: what 20 years of partnership can teach us about the next 20
Jacqui O’Hanlon, RSC Deputy Executive Director + Director of Creative Learning – considers how we learn from evidence, experimentation + collective learning.
Jacqui asks how we can work together to create systems of opportunity to enable every child to access an Arts-rich education.
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CLA Latest News: early October 2026
Big news this month is the announcement of who will be running the new National Centre for Arts Education – see our full report on this in our National Centre briefing.
🔺 New Key Stage 3 Alliance and call for evidence
🔺 The Freelands Awards winners
🔺 Fair Education Alliance latest Report Card findings
🔺 House of Lords debate on creative education
🔺 A new publication to support cultural educators
🔺 New philanthropic support for school singing
🔺 Arts Council releases guidance for NPOs
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CLA Briefing: The National Centre for Arts Education is taking shape: what we know so far
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Our CLA Education Reform Timeline details upcoming changes across curriculum, assessment, performance measures, technical qualifications + post-16, SEND, inspection, and the National Centre for Arts Ed.
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CLA Research Spotlight | Early Sept 2026
CLA’s Senior Evidence Associate, examines a US study using grade point average (GPA) and dropout rates, to determine that Arts ed benefits Black +Latinx high school students more than it benefits White students
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CLA Latest Thinking | From Advocacy to Action: Reimagining Education Through the Arts
By Zoe Morris, Executive Headteacher of Chorlton High School, part of the Prospere Learning Trust in Manchester.
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Image: RSC
CLA Latest Thinking | Belonging by Design: Towards an architecture of belonging in Arts education
By Liza Vallance, creative producer and consultant and former Deputy Director of Learning at the National Theatre
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Image – RSC
CLA Latest News | Early Sept 2026
Welcome to the first newsletter edition of the new school year and welcome back to those of you working in the education sector – wishing all our colleagues a great start to the new term.
🔺 A dramatic drop in number of graduate entry jobs
🔺 A new report revealing that young people’s life satisfaction has fallen
🔺 Freelance Champions appointed for the cultural sector
🔺 Paul Hamlyn Teacher Development Fund open for applications
🔺 AccessArt online event: Why all schools need to value the arts.
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CLA Research Spotlight | Late July 2026
This month Professor Pat Thomson reports on a new study of the benefits of enhanced sport + music provision during primary and sec. education which chimes with our own Rapid Evidence Review of Music Ed.
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CLA Education Reform Timeline
Keeping you up to date on policy reform inc. upcoming changes across curriculum, assessment performance measures, technical qualifications & post-16, SEND, inspection, and the National Centre for Arts Ed.
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CLA Latest Thinking | This is the moment! Why arts + culture belong at the heart of every child’s education
Kerry Hall (Enrichment for All) shares why Arts experiences are vital for enrichment, + how cultural partnerships will enable schools to deliver on Enrichment Benchmarks
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