The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) have published an initial review of the Find Your Talent (FYT) programme, launched in 2008.

The FYT programme commenced with an announcement of a pilot of a cultural offer to all young people in England comprising an entitlement to five hours per week of high-quality cultural experiences through a more co-ordinated and coherent offer and better local area planning. Ten ‘pathfinder’ areas were chosen to trial different ways of delivering a comprehensive cultural offer.

The evaluation, undertaken by SQW Consulting, Ipsos MORI with Karl Ashworth and Wafer Hadley, sought to test whether, and the extent to which:

-the programme brings about increases in participation and take up of the cultural offer, especially among the hard-to-reach

-there are improvements in the overall quality, co-ordination and coherence of the offer

-the offer delivers cultural, social and other wider outcomes

The evaluation can be read in full at www.findyourtalent.org/sites/default/files/FYT%20exec%20summary_LONG_SQW_revised_101209.pdf

source: NCA
and Voluntary Arts England