But this will change if Labour MP Frank Dobson has his way. Dobson and Tim Gill, director of the Children's Play Council, presented the findings of a review of play provision last week.
The former health secretary is the long-time chair of the Coram's Fields and Harmsworth Memorial Playground Trust in central London, so he has more than a passing interest in the issue.
Commissioned by culture secretary Tessa Jowell in October 2002, the review sets out recommendations for the allocation of 200m of Lottery money earmarked for children's play and says most of the money should go to deprived areas. It is not that deprived areas necessarily have less play provision, Dobson explains, but that such facilities are more likely to be in need of cash.
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