Just before Christmas, England's first national play strategy was finally published. The government des-cribed responses to the consultation as "overwhelming", with 9,400 children and young people letting ministers know what they thought.
As promised in The Children's Plan, £235m will be invested in up to 3,500 improved play areas and 30 new adventure playgrounds. In an unforeseen move, £30m due to be spent in 2010/11 will be brought forward to 2009/10 as part of the government's drive to counter the economic turndown.
Enabling children and young people to "take an active role in the development of local play spaces" is a central tenet of the play strategy. From April this year, there will be a national indicator for local authorities that will ask children how satisfied they are with local play areas.
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