Artsmark, the national award scheme to evaluate, celebrate and strengthen the arts offer for children and young people, has relaunched with a new online application system and broader remit to include further education colleges and youth justice settings.

A new focus of Artsmark is to support Arts Council England achieve its goal of ensuring every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts by promoting formal education institutions to deliver rich and high quality provision.

All schools in England, including special schools and Pupil Referral Units, can apply and, for the first time, further education colleges and youth justice settings are now eligible to apply.


The deadline for applications is 12 January 2012, for more infomation visit the Artsmark website