For too long, creative education has been treated as an optional extra in our schools: a luxury to be squeezed in when time and budgets allow. Yet creativity is not an enrichment activity. It is a fundamental human capacity and one of
Baroness Featherstone
Lynne Featherstone was a Liberal Democrat MP for two terms and a Minister in the Coalition Government for five years. She is best known as the originator and architect of the same sex marriage law. Now in the Lords she is on the DCMS team. Having been a designer and illustrator for twenty years before politics - she is delighted to return to her first love.