A study assessing the impact of a £124m lottery-funded initiative to improve children's access to play has found early signs of success while highlighting problem areas for local authorities and delivery partners.
The Big Lottery Fund's Children's Play Programme aims to raise the profile of play and to create and improve free play areas across England. The three-year scheme, launched in 2007, has awarded grants ranging between £100,000 and £3m to local authorities for 1,400 projects enabling 'free, unstructured play'.
The final tranche of funding - 13 awards amounting to £3.6m - was rolled out late last month, bringing the total of local authority areas receiving funding to 351.
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