| (1) Adventure playgrounds to let | | Mr Balls will |
| older children find out about risk | | announce a £250 million |
| will open around the country. | |  |
| Children's Secretary1) Ed | | |
| Balls promised to spend | | |
| extra money for physically- | | |
| challenging play areas aimed | | |
| at turning 8- to 13-year-olds | | |
| away from the computer | | |
| screen. He is worried too | | |
| many children no longer | | |
| experience controlled risk which | | |
| would teach them to take safe | | |
| decisions in future. It is part of a | | |
| major government plan to | | fund to provide more catch-up |
| reverse the decline of childhood. | | classes and one-to-one tuition |
| This plan also aims at improving | | with the aim of helping |
| drugs and alcohol education in | | struggling pupils and stimulating |
| an attempt to tackle increasingly | | the gifted. Secondary school |
| risky behaviour such as | | pupils who have been expelled |
| binge-drinking. The exposure of | | from school or are struggling |
| children to violent images via | | with the curriculum will learn |
| the internet or video games will | | how to run a business at a new |
| also be tackled. | | breed of ‘studio schools’ for 14- |
| (2) While the plan will focus on | | to 19-year-olds. They will be |
| improving children's lives | | more like workplaces than |
| outside school, it will also | | schools and pupils will learn |
| contain measures | | teamwork and leadership skills |
| aimed at driving | | there. |
| up exam performance. | | |
