Evaluation of Play England
In February 2006, the Big Lottery Fund awarded £15.13 million
over five years for the Play England project to provide strategic
enabling and support services to local authorities applying to a
new children’s play funding programme, and to establish
infrastructure for the strategic growth of play provision in
England.
Play England commissioned the NCB Research, Evidence and
Evaluation department in 2006 to undertake a four-year evaluation
of the Play England Project, which involved:
- an annual survey of local authority play leads
- the development of in-depth qualitative case studies
- annual interviews with local, regional and national
stakeholders
- regular interviews with staff
- surveys of the Play England membership
- analysis of monitoring data.
This report provides a summary of the findings from the four
years of the evaluation.
Download the Summary report [PDF 1.15MB] (Rachel
Blades & Chloe Gill, 2010)