This book brings together policymakers, academics and professionals from a variety of backgrounds to consider the arts’ contribution to wider social goals. It considers the potential contribution to improving education, mental health and offender rehabilitation outcomes.

The contributors begin to develop a shared language between the arts and other policy areas and develop shared methodological frameworks able to assess the arts’ contribution to education, mental health and offender rehabilitation outcomes.

Cowling J. (ed.) (2004). For Art’s Sake? Society and the Arts in the 21st Century.y London: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).