Strategy Towards an afternoon policy in educating neighbourhoods Equal cultural and educational extracurricular opportunities for children and teenagers in Barcelona January 2022 1 1. What is it? A new educational and cultural policy for the city that aims: To guarantee a varied offer of quality Connecting Ensuring the agents afternoon extracurricular activities access involved accessible to all children and teenagers in the city, Promoting by promoting a scholarship system to quality and diversity make them accessible within a framework of collaboration and shared goals among the public administrations and the social fabric. 2 2. Why? Some key data (I) Extracurricular activities are key to success in education, as well as a contributing factor to the continued existence of inequalities: Districts with a Access and 70.6% Children and The lower the lower income choice are take part in teenagers family income, level have conditioned by extracurricular from the less likely fewer families' socio- sports (72% low-income they are to extracurricular cultural and of girls and families take take part in activities on socio- 81% of boys) part in such artistic or offer and economic and only activities 28% cultural lower profile and 48% in non- less than those extracurricular participation origin. sport-related from high- activities rates in these activities income families activities 3 2. Why? Some key data (II) There is a lack of coordination between the various agents involved and the extracurricular activities on offer: It is estimated that The main entities are Barcelona has over 1,100 associations, sports clubs, entities actively running school parents' / families' around 1,300 associations, schools and extracurricular activities other educational per year, mainly covering institutions, and sports, languages and the foundations and arts. private companies providing cultural, sports and educational leisure activities. 4 3. What do we want? We want to ensure: That the right to education extends That all children and teenagers in beyond the school environment by the city aged 6 to 16 can take part creating an educating city at in extracurricular activities. neighbourhood level. Progress in upholding children's and teenagers' cultural rights to enable them That all neighbourhoods have a to take part in cultural and community sufficient, varied and complementary life on the basis of equal opportunities. range of activities on offer among centres, entities and facilities. A reduction in inequality or situations of poverty in children and teenagers. That all barriers to access (economic, information-related, administrative, geographic and others) are gradually reduced. 5 4. What for? 1. TO RECOGNISE 3. TO GUARANTEE at least two educational value and afternoons of high- inequality and the quality local, diverse lack of coordination and accessible among the parties extracurricular activities in educating involved. 2. TO CONNECT neighbourhoods. city and neighbourhood aims, criteria, agents, functions and programmes. 6 4. What for? (I) What children and teenagers learn from the educational time spent in afternoons with extracurricular activities has positive impacts at both personal and group levels. 1. TO RECOGNISE educational value and They are also an inequality scenario: We are inequality and the advancing from the fight against school lack of coordination segregation to mitigating educational among the parties segregation. involved. We are starting from a lack of coordination among various agents with a role in extracurricular afternoons. 7 4. What for? (II) To share goals and criteria and coordinate scattered agents in an Educational Afternoons Table. 2. TO CONNECT city and To ensure complementarity and coordination on neighbourhood territorial tables or spaces with families (school aims, criteria, families' associations), primary and secondary schools, social entities, leisure companies and local agents, functions facilities, wherever afternoon activities are run. and programmes To restructure existing programmes driven by the public administrations or encourage the creation of new ones in areas with few opportunities. 8 4. What for? (III) Access to at least two extracurricular afternoons for all children and teenagers in the city, promoting a system of scholarships to make them more accessible. 3. TO GUARANTEE at least two afternoons of high-quality local, diverse A minimum coordinated range of activities and accessible available in each educating neighbourhood, extracurricular activities in ensuring high quality learning and educational educating neighbourhoods. value. Ensuring variety in the types of activities on offer: sports, artistic and cultural, scientific and technological, languages and educational support. 9 5. With whom? Municipal facilities that run extracurricular Social activities entities Primary and secondary BARCELONA CITY school COUNCIL education (led by) * teams** School * Led by the Directorate of Education of the Area of parents' / Culture, Education, Science and Community in cross- families' associations departmental coordination with various Barcelona City and Companies Council areas: Barcelona Institute of Culture, the federations providing cultural, Neighbourhood and District Plan, the Barcelona Sports sports and Institute and the Consortium educational leisure activities. of Education and Social Rights. ** As part of its regulatory and community educational project duties, aiming to ensure that what is learnt at school is consistent with what is learnt outside 10 school. 6. How? Main measures to be carried out in 2022-2023 1. Drawing up a map and promoting a framework of 3. And how will these extracurricular activities reach the shared tasks in relation to the afternoon educational children who need them the most? activities on offer to supplement and offer new • Afternoon connection figures. activities wherever they are needed. €6.4million. 2022-23 • Creating the Educational Afternoons Table with the city’s entities 4. Who will be in charge of managing this • Identification of needs at territorial and school initiative? levels • An Afternoon Coordination Office will be created. 2. Setting up new extracurricular activities promoted by €600,000. 2022-23 Barcelona City Council to supplement the activities on offer in the areas or territories with the lowest supply. We will start with: • The “Devouring Books" programme. €1.1 million, 2021- 23 • The “We Are Artists" programme. €500,000. 2022-23 • By increasing the support given to school families' associations. €160,000. 2022-23 • Scholarships for officially approved activities. €250,000. 2023 11 7. Implementing the City Strategy actions towards an Afternoon Policy in Educating Neighbourhoods  • Creating an Educational • Official approval of activities. • A platform for information, registration Afternoons Table. and the awarding of scholarships. • Expanding the official approval • Identifying the system to grant accreditation and • Scholarships for doing extracurricular activities recognition based on the quality extracurricular artistic, cultural, available in the of activities. scientific and technological activities. neighbourhoods and • Offering universally designed activities • A guidance and spaces of articulation. to help achieve inclusive afternoon communication strategy to • Creating an Afternoon education. encourage and diversify the Coordination Office. pursuit of extracurricular • Supporting school parents' / activities. families' associations to strengthen their role of selecting, coordinating • A revitalising and connecting and providing extracurricular function for neighbourhoods' social activities. and educational staff. • Supporting facilities to link their • Helping schools carry out a community projects to afternoon extracurricular education project. programmes. • Revitalising neighbourhood tables • A range of publicly available to facilitate collaboration among extracurricular activities in the promotional agents. neighbourhoods with a poorer social fabric and fewer available afternoon activities. 12 8. Estimated budget Promoting equity in access to opportunities provided by educational afternoons with extracurricular activities for children and teenagers in the city entails a total budget of €22.7 million between 2022 and 2023, coming from different Barcelona City Council areas: €9.2 million from the Strategy towards an Afternoon Policy in Educating Neighbourhoods (2022-2023). This is in addition to the annual budget for the main programmes linked to extracurricular activities promoted and funded by Barcelona City Council, which is estimated to amount to a total of €13.5 million between 2022 and 2023: • €3 million per year for scholarships for sports activities outside school hours, which are currently given to over 13,300 children (6-16 years old) through the Barcelona Institute of Sports. • €1.5 million per year in educational support programmes through the Education Consortium called Success, Speak-up and Tangram which currently involves 92 schools and 2.560 children (6-16 years old). 13 Thank you! @BCNeducadora ajuntament.barcelona.cat/educacio 14