Dawn Maria France is an award-winning Yorkshire Women’s Life Magazine Editor, Children’s Author and Broadcaster.

"I’ve always been slightly different to others so I wanted to create that within the agency. I wanted it to be a place with fresh faces that may not get seen."

For a long time we have been fed the narrative that arts subjects don't belong in schools. So I decided to dig a little bit deeper. Why do people feel this way about these subjects? And is there any substantial evidence to support their views?