The funding was agreed following a series of focus group meetings with teachers, students and parents, as well as two reports commissioned by the Department of Culture and Sport.
The first, written by Baroness Kay Andrews, examined how cultural and heritage organisations can work closer together in order to help tackle poverty, while a second report, written by Arts Council of Wales chair Dai Smith, looked at the effect of arts in education.
Announcing the funding on behalf of the Arts Council of Wales, Mr Smith said he hoped the money would create a legacy for generations to come: “We know that there is a great body of evidence now that has been gathered over the past 20 to 30 years which demonstrates unequivocally that where you have schools which give time to cultural learning there is benefit both in that sphere and also to the other disciplines.
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