This is interesting, and, inter alia, notes that 'Experts have pointed to the recruitment crisis, accountability pressures and funding as reasons behind the gap'.

Book to join In Conversation Live with children's author and poet Prof Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓, interviewed by Dr Rachel Clarke - whose account of NHS staff working through the pandemic, #Breathtaking , was recently serialised by ITV.

Tickets 👉 rsm.ac/49lKvtF

🤩 NEW speaker stream for this year – Singing and Wellbeing for Children and Young People!

Stream lead, Jeremy Dibb, will be joined by similarly-passionate speakers who will be sharing their knowledge on the benefits of singing as part of education.

➡️ futurefwd.org/attend

To Singing Medicine Ex Cathedra’s Education & Participation team Sarah Budd Sarah Batten Gemma King Simon Peter King Robert Challinor
see here 👇🏽

We are passionate about music education here in Warwick and have it as a major part of the third annual
Future Fwd conference. I encourage anyone who is equally passionate to come along and be part of this conversation for real change. futurefwd.org/attend

So Sarah Budd Sarah Budd
Sarah Batten Robert Challinor Gemma King Simon Peter King
this 👇🏽 takes to a whole new level
‘🎶 I get my power from splashing in puddles’ Singing Medicine Singing Playgrounds

See 👇🏽here and listen to this beautiful music Robert Challinor and 𝕊𝕦𝕫𝕫𝕚𝕖 𝕍𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕠 . This will make you smile ☀️

Ex Cathedra’s Education & Participation team Jimmy Rotheram musicteachermagazine.co.uk/review/article…

Thank you to Jimmy Rotheram & Music Teacher for this very generous review. It was a massive team effort, particularly Simon Peter King Sarah Batten & 🙏for enormous support from Vada Recording Studios
🙏to all supporters, not least Stuart Birnie
Let’s get singing back at the💜of…

🙏 Jimmy Rotheram & Music Teacher for your very generous review of

our new online ChoirMaker resource!

‘Smashes the ball out of the park.’

‘Unique, high-quality, diverse, world-class modelling.’

This resource was a *big* team effort and a labour of love for everyone.

It’s nearly the end of ⁦Big Give⁩ week. All donations make a difference,
whatever size🙏 It’ll mean little children, isolated in hospital for long periods of time having cancer treatment, can smile, play, laugh, & go anywhere in their imaginations. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…

To Singing Medicine and Ex Cathedra’s Education & Participation team 👇🏽

To sing or not to sing… that is another question…

I think this 👇🏽 poem by Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 will make you smile Ewan Fernie

👇🏽looking forward to this

Sobering statistics in Barbara Keeley 💙 🇺🇦's speech on music hubs in UK Parliament a couple of days ago: there are 20,000 fewer state school ensembles, orchestras, bands and choirs than there were just seven years ago...

Incredibly, we have hit our ⁦Big Give⁩ campaign target, within less than 24hrs! We had no idea how this might go.
Those donations will be doubled. But if you can still donate, it WILL mean *even *more Singing Medicine for sick children in hospital🙏 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a0569…

👇🏽’There are 20,000 fewer state school bands, orchestras, ensembles and choirs than there were seven years ago’ - Hansard