Research tender: How do children and young people with disability experience arts and couture?

EMBridge The Mighty Creatives (TMC) is committed to helping more children access more great art and culture more of the time, so that they are able to develop their own cultural lives and capabilities and shape art and culture in their communities.

They are therefore asking what needs to be different to increase engagement in arts and culture, overcome duplication and under-utilisation in the current cultural offer and secure sustainable growth of high quality arts and cultural provisions with, by and for children and young people, their families, schools and communities.

Through previous research they have identified a number of priority communities of young people for whom this work is particularly important. For the purposes of this proposed research they are focusing on the following priority group of children and young people with a disability.

They are aware that there are a wide range of disabilities that children and young people experience. However, as the research aims to provide an in depth understanding of children and young people's lives and experiences and the way that arts and culture can support them, the research will focus on one type or area of disability depending on level of need. The level of need will be identified through the first stage of research and will be used to set the focus for the second research stage, agreed by TMC and researcher.

This research sits within national frameworks including the 2011 Green Paper and subsequent Governmental response 'Support and Aspiration: a new approach to special educational needs and disability', which identifies the life chances of young people who are disabled as being disproportionately poor, and the National Plan for Cultural Education's statement that all children should have a rich cultural life supported through high quality opportunities in their local area.

To download the tender and application information visit http://themightycreatives.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3ff519ad09f541829150122f7&id=f8ee100413&e=a06e65c4f2.

Proposals should be submitted to Ellie Stout, Community Partnerships Manager, TMC, by email to ellie@themightycreatives.com by 9am on Friday 13 December.