Becoming a Hub Partner

The vision of the revised National Plan for Music Education is to enable all children and young people to learn to sing, play an instrument and create music together, and have the opportunity to progress their musical interests and talents, including professionally.

The three aims and five strategic functions of the National Plan drives our work, forming the Local Plan for Music Education for Derby and Derbyshire, delivered by local and national partners led by Derby & Derbyshire Music Partnership.

We welcome expressions of interest from organisations that can help us deliver our Local Plan to meet these three aims and five strategic functions.

Three Aims

The National Plan sets out its vision against three aims:

• Support schools and other education settings to deliver high-quality music education
• Support young people to develop their musical interests and talent further, including into employment
• Support all children and young people to engage with a range of musical opportunities in and out of school

Five Strategic Functions

Music Hub Lead Organisations are expected to form a Local Plan for Music Education that explains how partners will work collectively to achieve the three aims whilst addressing five strategic functions:

• Partnerships
  Build a sustainable, local infrastructure for high-quality music education and music-making, in partnership with schools, early years and other education providers, community organisations, and other regional and national youth music organisations and industry.
• Schools
  Support all state funded schools to help them deliver high-quality music education. This should include a quality curriculum support offer, specialist tuition, instruments and ensembles; and a broad range of progression routes and musical experiences for all pupils.
• Progression and Musical Development
  Support children and young people to develop and progress with music; including into national or specialist opportunities, higher education and employment. Support children and young people to access the wider world of music including live performance and community music.
• Inclusion
  Drive broad access to music education, so every child has the opportunity to participate irrespective of their circumstances, background, where they live, or their SEND.
• Sustainability
  Ensure the strategic, financial, and operational sustainability of the Music Hub by ensuring workforces are well trained, leverage funding to develop wider investment, being accountable and transparent and considering environmental responsibilities.

Becoming a Hub Partner

If you think you or your organisation could contribute to delivering the vision, aims and strategic functions of the National Plan, please complete an expression of interest by following the button link below. A member of our team will be in touch to arrange a further dialogue.