The government announced the measures in its policy paper A Place for Culture: Developing a local culture offer for all children and young people, which sets out ways in which it can deliver its cultural offer of ensuring all children and young people undertake at least five hours of quality cultural activities each week.
Drawing from findings from the 10 Find Your Talent areas, which have been testing the government's cultural pledge, the Department for Media, Culture and Sport's paper suggests developing "networks of cultural ambassadors with first-hand experience of the life-changing experiences".
The document also says the government will set out what a good cultural offer looks like from a child's perspective, ensure funding for cultural education is used to support the cultural offer and involve the extended school programme more in delivering the cultural pledge.
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