Play facilities for older teenagers "are just not good enough".
So says Tim Gill, director of the Children's Play Council and co-author of the Government-commissioned children's play review, Getting Serious About Play, launched last week (YPN, 21-27 January, p2).
According to the review, which canvassed young people's views, "more effort in co-ordinating play services is needed", says Gill.
The review, which suggests what the Department for Media, Culture and Sport should spend 200m of New Opportunities Fund cash on, doesn't go so far as to recommend legislation forcing councils to provide adequate play facilities.
But it is a subject that has got one group of 13-year-olds in Devon campaigning to develop play access for their peers. Making Inclusion a Reality is a group of able-bodied and disabled young people funded through the Government's three-year 10.8m Better Play grant scheme, which started releasing cash this month.
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