About Creativity, Culture and Education
Creativity, Culture and Education (“CCE”) is a newly formed national organisation that has been established to manage the Government’s flagship programme for creativity in schools, Creative Partnerships.
CCE is being created as a result of a demerger from Arts Council England (“ACE”) and is currently in the final stages of it’s establishment as an independent charitable company. CCE has main office locations in Newcastle upon Tyne and London and significant work is currently underway to ensure that the people, business processes and infrastructure required are in place and operating effectively.
A number of CCE’s staff will be transferring over from the Creative Partnerships team within ACE, but significant recruitment activity is also being undertaken, particularly at a senior level as CCE develops its own senior management team.
CCE is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Children, Schools and Families and will maintain close working relationship with these departments and ACE.
Why is creativity important?
Creativity develops the capacity to imagine the world differently. We all need an ability not just to cope with change, but also to positively thrive on it and engineer it for ourselves. Therefore, young people need the tools to conceptualise how the world could be different and the inner confidence and motivation to make it happen. They need to be able to take risks and fail confidently. To do this young people need to enjoy learning, know how to seek out relevant information, apply knowledge and skills in new and imaginative ways and try out ideas in real world situations where they can observe real outcomes and receive generative critical feedback.
What has been achieved so far?
Creative Partnerships now operates in 36 areas in England and is working intensively with around 1,100 schools. It has delivered projects to young people or continuing professional development (CPD) to teachers in a further 1,500 schools and disseminated best practice to a further 7,000, so that over one third of schools in England have had some contact with the programme. Creative Partnerships has worked with 550,000 young people and 50,000 teachers, provided training to over 32,000 teachers and creative practitioners, and has employed over 4,500 creative practitioners and cultural organisations.