Campaign for the Arts’s Gamble emphasised that the two pieces of news were interlinked, explaining: “Bursaries are a key tool for tackling the teacher recruitment crisis, because when bursaries go up, so do teacher training applications.”

He hit out at the DfE’s decision to axe creative ITT bursaries as “short-sighted and counterproductive, especially at a time when recruitment to all arts subjects is concerningly below target”.

He warned: “Labour has pledged to ‘put creativity at the heart of the curriculum’, but these changes are likely to further restrict the supply of specialist teachers needed to deliver on that promise.”