Heidi Johnson: Making the case for music, loud and clear AS a parent, you want the best for your children. It’s part of the job. You want to give them every opportunity you can. That, unfortunately, is not as easy in rural parts of North Yorkshire. I work for NYMAZ – a North Yorkshire youth music charity – and today we are unveiling a report Gone in the Air: Young people, music and rural isolation. The headline finding is that children in rural areas risk further isolation if the benefits of out-of-school music remain undervalued in England. We’ve found a great deal of evidence to suggest that, despite the numerous benefits of living in a rural area, young people’s life chances can be affected by issues such as poor and expensive transport links, outward migration of young people, limited access to education, employment and training and an increased likelihood of social isolation. Young people can find it harder to meet and make new friends, they can lack resilience and confidence and can be constrained by lack of exposure to new experiences and different world views. The good news is that we can address these issues. We don’t have to sit back and accept that a child from a small village [...] leedsinnews/heidi-johnson-making-the-case-for-music-loud-and-clear/
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:15:36 +0000
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