About

about entitlement membership

The Arts Learning Consortium consists of eleven Children’s Services Departments and three major universities in North West England, whose mission is to champion the importance of the arts and creativity to learning.

Our activity encompasses advocacy, action research and the sharing and dissemination of ideas, information and good practice.

ALC works in partnership with CapeUK, an incubator for the development of ideas and practice in creativity and learning. CapeUK is both a research and a practical organisation with a focus on children and young people and those organisations and individual who work with them.

Values

We believe that:

• Children and young people, and those who work with them, have an entitlement to high quality arts, creative and cultural learning opportunities.
• This entitlement extends to every child and young person; the arts can be enjoyed and experienced in many different ways.
• All children and young people, and those who work with them, have the right to engage in the arts as a means of understanding self, others, their society and societies that are different from their own. This is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• Children and young people should be co-constructors of learning; we will support and promote pupil agency.
• We believe that collaboration between providers can enhance the quality of arts learning.
• We are committed to moving forward understandings of arts learning through research, communities of interest and continuous professional development.
• Our membership enables us to connect arts learning from birth through to adulthood [in terms of both employment and leisure interests]; we will utilize this to track experiences and improve transitions.
• We believe that the arts achievements of children and young people, and those who work with them, should be celebrated at local, regional, national and international levels.