x

We need your help!

Spend just a few moments of your time letting us know about your understanding of DTAP by completing this online survey and enter a prize draw for a £25 Amazon voucher.

About us

Dance Training & Accreditation Partnership (DTAP) represents a major, dance sector-led strategic initiative, and brings together a consortium of leading national organisations committed to building capacity and removing barriers to participation in dance by people of all ages and abilities.

DTAP began in 2006 as a collective response to an increasing concern about the lack of recognised professional standards and qualifications at an appropriate level that equip dance professionals / artists for the nature and range of work that they are undertaking with children and young people. This reflected the shared belief that the quality of dance provision for young people rests on the quality of the dance artists and practitioners delivering it. 

DTAP's brief has now expanded to address issues of participation in dance across all ages and sections of society, and aims to:

  • Enhance the quality of the leadership and facilitation of participatory dance for people at all stages of their development and points of engagement with dance
  • Build capacity in the dance sector to develop a workforce qualified and skilled to meet demand
  • Take forward work to develop regulation of dance leadership, teaching and facilitation in the informal sector
  • Develop greater communication and collaboration across the dance sector on issues of quality, standards and good practice

Our current activities include the launch of a new qualification, the development of professional standards and research into the potential for a regulatory framework for the dance sector.

Latest news

20/06/2011 - National Occupational Standards in Dance Leadership Launched

DTAP (Dance Training Accreditation Partnership) and Creative & Cultural Skills have announced the publication of the first National Occupational Standards (NOS) in Dance Leadership. The NOS will have a range of practical uses to those working as teachers / leaders in participatory dance, as well as those employing them, and those designing education, training and CPD for them.

 

Read more

24/01/2011 - New Dance Teaching & Learning Diploma Hits the Right Steps

More than 60 dance artists and practitioners have enrolled with four organisations who are amongst the first to offer training and mentoring programmes to prepare them to take the new qualification: Diploma in Dance Teaching and Learning (Children and Young People).

Read more

11/11/2010 - Response to survey supports need for greater recognition of dance teaching

DTAP is currently exploring the most appropriate means of revealing competency in dance teaching to the public, employers and those without specialist dance knowledge. During August and September 2010 the DTAP partners surveyed their members and other interested parties to ensure that feedback from the dance profession continues to inform its work in this area. DTAP was grateful to receive 250 completed surveys.

Read more

11/11/2010 - Have your say on the new National Occupational Standards for Dance Leadership

DTAP has developed a set of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Dance Leadership in partnership with the sector skills council Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills). The draft NOS are currently in the final consultation stages before being launched formally later this year.

DTAP and CCSkills are now asking for feedback on the draft NOS.

 

Read more