£10 million to boost singing in primary school

Primary school children will soon be singing from the same songsheet - literally.
A £10 million package will pay for a national songbook of thirty songs for whole class or whole school singing, to be nominated by children and singing teachers. The songs will range from classical to folk and pop traditions.
The package takes up the recommendations of the Music Manifesto, published last year.
Howard Goodall, a composer and radio broadcaster has been appointed the"Singing Ambassador" whose job will be to campaign for more singing in primary schools. He wrote the theme music for the Vicar of Dibley.
He said, "For me, singing in particular is every child's first, intuitive access to the world of music, but it is also a powerful and often untapped resource for social cohesion. There is barely an adult alive who does not wish they could sing with more confidence or that they had had a better start with their voices as children."
Read the government announcement.