Labour accuses UK government of ‘stifling children’s creativity’

Shadow arts minister highlights stark drop in number of students taking arts GCSEs, which has fallen by 40% since 2010

Labour has accused the government of stifling children's creativity and damaging the talent pipeline" for Britain's creative industries by failing to provide proper arts and culture education.

The party said the arts were being squeezed out of schools as a result of tightened budgets, teacher shortages and the decreasing importance of arts and culture subjects through school accountability measures such as English baccalaureate entries.