Examples of arts projects that have impacted positively on participants’ health and wellbeing are being sought by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Arts, Health and Wellbeing, as part of an inquiry launched with King’s College London. This new study will look at evidence of the arts improving people’s health and wellbeing in order to inform this, for which a report will make policy recommendations and aims to inform political leadership in the arts, health and wellbeing.
The inquiry was launched in November 2015 in order to raise understanding of the benefits of arts in health among all political parties. To do so the APPG and King’s College London are working with a series of partners, including the National Alliance for the Arts, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charity, and the Royal Society for Public Health Special Interest Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The aim is to establish the arts as a main contributor to health and social care services, already clear to those within the industry but perhaps not so to those outside it.
The final report is due to be published in 2017, and submissions of reports about projects undertaken in the past decade which will inform this are invited by 19 August 2016. Engagement might involve attendance at events or participation in creative activity, or another form of interaction. The arts encompasses everything across crafts, dance, design, digital arts and media, drama, film, literature, music, photography, singing and the visual arts, placing value in the locations in which arts engagement might take place, such as community venues, concert halls, healthcare settings, homes, galleries, museums, theatres, libraries, public spaces and heritage sites.
Once the report is produced, with the assistance of leading practitioners and researchers, it will aim to influence the thinking and practice of politicians and other decision-takers.
New inquiry for arts, health and wellbeing
Examples of arts projects that have impacted positively on participants’ health and wellbeing are being sought by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Arts, Health and Wellbeing, as part of an inquiry launched with King’s College London. This new study will look at evidence of the arts improving people’s health and wellbeing in order to inform this, for which a report will make policy recommendations and aims to inform political leadership in the arts, health and wellbeing.
The inquiry was launched in November 2015 in order to raise understanding of the benefits of arts in health among all political parties. To do so the APPG and King’s College London are working with a series of partners, including the National Alliance for the Arts, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Charity, and the Royal Society for Public Health Special Interest Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The aim is to establish the arts as a main contributor to health and social care services, already clear to those within the industry but perhaps not so to those outside it.
The final report is due to be published in 2017, and submissions of reports about projects undertaken in the past decade which will inform this are invited by 19 August 2016. Engagement might involve attendance at events or participation in creative activity, or another form of interaction. The arts encompasses everything across crafts, dance, design, digital arts and media, drama, film, literature, music, photography, singing and the visual arts, placing value in the locations in which arts engagement might take place, such as community venues, concert halls, healthcare settings, homes, galleries, museums, theatres, libraries, public spaces and heritage sites.
Once the report is produced, with the assistance of leading practitioners and researchers, it will aim to influence the thinking and practice of politicians and other decision-takers.