Ministers attacked over school fields sale - The Observer 30th March 2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

A flagship government initiative to regenerate children's play and exercise areas has been undermined by the revelation that last year the Education Secretary and his predecessor personally agreed the sale of 19 school playing fields. Despite government promises made over the past decade that playing fields would be carefully protected, at least 187 fields have disappeared. Hundreds of other pieces of school land have also been sold after being classed as too small to be playing fields.

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