Game plan

By Mary Evans, Nursery World, 25 January 2007

Stimulating play could be as important as nutrition or education in breaking cycles of poverty and deprivation, says Mary Evans The provision of simple toys and structured play could enable more than 200 million of the world's poorest children to achieve their developmental potential and so help break the cycle of deprivation, according to a series of research papers published in leading medical journal The Lancet.

Stimulating play could be as important as nutrition or education in breaking cycles of poverty and deprivation, says Mary Evans The provision of simple toys and structured play could enable more than 200 million...

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