Supervising Artsmark status

Supervising Artsmark status

The Artsmark team do not have the capacity to monitor the Artsmark status of all settings in detail and cannot deal with complaints about an Artsmark settings’ arts provision. However the following rules do apply to a setting during the three years that they hold Artsmark status.

• Settings will be surveyed once a year asking them to certify that standards are the same and the statements they made in their application have not changed in that time, this certification will be made by the headteacher/lead worker. If a response to the survey is not received, then the school/setting will be removed from the list of Artsmark organisations and an official letter sent to them informing them they can no longer use the logo.
• In addition to this self-certification the use that is made of the Artsmark logos will be monitored and we reserve the right to inspect the use that is being made by a school/setting on any day on which that school/setting is open, at three days notice.
• All schools/settings holding Artsmark status will be expected to abide by the logo use guidelines found on www.artsmark.org.uk. Any schools/setting found misusing the logo may have their Artsmark status revoked.
• Artsmark certificates sent to schools/settings will clearly state the year that a schools will need to reapply to continue to hold their Artsmark status.
• In the year in which a school/setting needs to reapply they will be contacted by email and letter confirming that they need to reapply in this round to continue to hold their Artsmark status. Any schools who do not then reapply will be informed by letter that their status has lapsed and that they should remove any logos from their website, letterhead and other school publicity materials.
• Continuing to the use the logo after Artsmark status has lapsed may result in that schools or setting not being able to reapply for Artsmark status in the future.