The National Music Hubs set up to support and improve music education in schools are reaching only a minority of pupils and must do better, Ofsted inspectors have said.
The new approach to supporting music education has succeeded to some extent in providing instrumental teaching and supporting local choirs, orchestras and festivals, as well as promoting musical partnerships and collaboration, but too few pupils have benefited overall from the initiative.
An Ofsted report published this week – Music in Schools: What hubs must do – finds that there is little difference between the provision offered now under the system of music hubs and the previous set-up when music provision of this kind was organised by local authorities.
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