Quality and Impact
GSW Music Hub – Quality Framework
Growing quality through connection
Across Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire, our partners create powerful musical experiences with young people. The GSW Quality Framework provides a clear, simple way to describe quality across the region — rooted in youth voice, access, musical progression and lived experience.
Our Shared Principles
Lived experience over external judgement
Quality is seen in real moments of music-making, which we share and learn from.
Youth voice at the centre
Young people shape design, delivery and review.
Musical × Holistic
Progress and wellbeing matter equally.
Access × Progression
Everyone can take part and move forward meaningfully.
Different in different contexts
Quality looks different in schools, studios, community spaces, events.
Connection over comparison
Learning together, not ranking.
Space to improve, not pressure to prove
Light, purposeful evidence.
Based on Youth Music’s Do, Review, Improve, model, Capture · Share · Develop enables a shared cycle of reflection and learning that supports consistent, collaborative quality across the GSW partnership.
Capture — observations, youth voice, stakeholder feedback, engagement data, stories & lived examples.
Share — peer visits, shared clips/stories, reflective summaries, annual conversations.
Develop — CPD, acting on feedback, continuous reflection, strong safeguarding & inclusion.
It’s a continuous loop, not a one-off exercise — encouraging open, reflective practice and a cycle of improvement that’s practical, evidence-based, and rooted in lived experience.
Partners agree to:
- Celebrate diverse approaches to quality
- Participate in a shared reflective cycle
- Use evidence meaningfully
- Support openness, curiosity and kindness
- Build a shared story of quality for GSW
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