Towards Securing Sufficient Play Opportunities…

Author: Stuart Lester and Wendy Russell
Date: June 2014

This study looks back over the first year of the statutory play sufficiency process, and forward to the commencement of the second part of the Play Sufficiency Duty. The duty requires local authorities to ensure their local area provides sufficient opportunities for children to play.

The purpose of the study was to look at:

• what happened over the 12 months after the first Play Sufficiency Assessments were submitted to the Welsh Government in 2013
• how selected local authorities prepared themselves to respond to the commencement of the second part of the Play Sufficiency Duty.