In the 1960s and into the 1970s, teachers strove to provide a full, exciting and balanced curriculum but it was called radical.

Study after study has shown that a balanced curriculum including the arts produces more imaginative scientists, industrialists and software designers.

I think that teachers will be excited by it as it will give them freedom to teach a broad and balanced curriculum.

All schools, irrespective of their status, should be given the fullest encouragement and significant support from the government to maintain a broad and balanced curriculum, with music at its heart.

Our schools need clarity that citizenship on the national curriculum must be delivered effectively and will be inspected routinely (sometimes with no notice) as part of a broad, balanced curriculum.