Actions in The Children’s Plan aimed at promoting active childhood by creating more safe places to play include:

• £225 million investment from 2008-2011 to:
• offer local authorities capital funding to build or renew 3,500 playgrounds and make them accessible to children with disabilities
• pilot a Play Pathfinder programme, initially 30 new supervised adventure playgrounds or play parks for 8-13 year-olds in disadvantaged areas
• enable 4,000 play workers to achieve recognised play qualifications.
• piloting new volunteering schemes to support play in local communities
• working with the Department for Communities and Local Government to improve the quality of play environments through planning guidance and play training for planners and highways and greenspace officers
• publishing a national cross-departmental play strategy by summer 2008.

Further investment will be made in outdoor play facilities on school sites through school capital programmes such as Building Schools for the Future.

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