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    Seventeen years on: why England needs a new National Play Strategy

    2025-05-23T05:00:00Z

    Eugene Minogue, Executive Director of Play England Just over seventeen years ago, on 2 April 2008, the last Labour government launched England’s first, and only, National Play Strategy. Ed Balls and Andy Burnham, both secretaries of state at the time, quite literally swung into action at an ...