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£225m pledged for outdoor playgrounds
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
2 April 2008
A major national consultation on children's play will be launched by the Government on Thursday (3 April), as part of a drive to encourage more children to play outside.
The £225m initiative will be spent on 3,500 playgrounds and 30 adventure play areas staffed with trained supervisors, according to a Sunday newspaper. Speaking to The Observer ahead of the launch, children's minister Ed Balls said, 'We know that 80 per cent of children prefer to play outside and 86 per cent of parents agreed that on a nice day their children would prefer to go to the park than watch...
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