A new survey by Youth Music has found that the proportion of young people who think of themselves as musical now sits at 55%, a drop of 9% since 2018. Parental confidence in school music education is also very low, with just 11% of parents of under fives believing their children will get enough of a musical education in school. That tallies with the Sound of the Next Generation report’s findings that access to music – particularly in schools – has decreased and comes in the wake of The State of the Arts report which found arts education faces a structural funding crisis.