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<p>All state-maintained secondary schools must teach art and design and music to pupils
at Key Stage 3 (pupils aged 11 – 14). Drama is taught as part of the English curriculum
and dance is included in PE & sport. At Key Stage 4 (pupils aged 14 – 16), there
is a statutory entitlement for every pupil to take an arts subject, if they wish to
do so. Academies must teach a broad and balanced curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted’s
new education inspection framework, which comes into effect in September, has a strong
emphasis on ensuring schools provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all their
pupils.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2016-20 we are spending almost £500 million on a range
of arts and cultural education programmes.</p>
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