Government urged to make singing as important as reading and maths in schools

A report has called for a £150 million fund to train new teachers to provide arts learning - (PA)

Every primary school should become a "singing school” where music, drama, and visual arts are just as integral as literacy and numeracy, a new report suggests.

The Centre for Young Lives think tank and the Child of the North initiative say teachers should be given the time and resources to nurture children’s creativity through singing, music, painting, drawing and acting.