The Big Lottery Fund's Children's Play Programme: a missed opportunity to gather the evidence?

The Big Lottery Fund's Children's Play Programme provided an ideal opportunity to gather evidence of the benefits of funding children's play provision. This paper proposes that without a systematic evaluation of the programme at a national level, an opportunity to evaluate consistently, the impact of the funding on outcomes for children's play was missed.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2015.1106044