CPD Recording: The DfE Enrichment Framework and Arts & Culture: What Your School Needs to Know and How AccessArt Can Support Delivery
In this session focusing on the Department for Education’s Enrichment Framework, we discuss how Arts & Culture has been identified as one of the five key areas in which every school should provide enrichment.
We welcomed two members of the DfE’s Pupil Enrichment team: Elizabeth Kendall, Head of Enrichment, and Jenny Oster Warriner, Enrichment Policy Advisor, who shared the intentions, expectations and opportunities of the DfE Enrichment Framework with us.
We were also joined by specialist art teacher Mandy Barrett from Gomersal Primary School, who shared what arts and cultural enrichment looks like in her setting.
Explore the AccessArt Enrichment Offer, helping schools to deliver Arts & Culture within the DfE Enrichment Framework.
Find a recording of the event below. This session was recorded on 1/10/2026.
Katie F
October 9, 2026 @ 10:41 am
Just wanted to say thank you for this presentation. I am the Learning and Outreach Officer at the Higgins Museum in Bedford. I would really reiterate what you said about contacting local museums and galleries. We are currently in receipt of Arts Council funding and have as our number one priority to engage with local schools with high levels of children in receipt of pupil premium funding. Using our funding we offer these schools, free visits, access to local artists whose fees we cover, free outreach and loan boxes. As a former teacher I know the immense value of these experiences. We have also teamed up with local funders to offer artist led CPD sessions. For schools who don’t qualify for the subsidised offer, we match their requirements with locals artists who deliver sessions in our workshop – the school only cover the cost of the artist. The value to the children is fantastic but the teachers too. Thank you for doing this, your resources are appreciated enormously.
Rachel
October 12, 2026 @ 10:21 am
Hi Katie, thank you for your comment and that’s really interesting and encouraging to hear! Do stay in touch and we hope you can attend another session with us in the future!