Play Wales: Weighing up risks and benefits in children’s play
Play Wales has published a new information sheet aimed at helping children’s play organisers take the right approach in decision-making over play infrastructure.Read more
Supporting the right to play in schools in Wales
The Play Wales charity has re-published a briefing document for school heads, teachers and governors which highlights the benefits of play in school for youngsters’ health and well-being.Read morePlay in Wales: a resource for community and town councils
Play Wales, the national charity for children’s play, has published a paper aimed at helping local councils support better opportunities for play.Read more
How to find a place for kids to play in the pandemic
Can parents and educators support opportunities for children to play, when so many of their activities are restricted by COVID-19?. That’s the question posed by Elizabeth Cushing, the president of Playworks, a US non-profit children’s...Read more
Free-range kids: Why a child’s freedom to travel and play without supervision matters
The recently released 2020 ParticipACTION Report Card revealed that Canadian children scored a D+ for “daily physical activity,” an F for “active play” and a D- for “active transportation.” Only 39 per cent of Canadian...Read more
I redesigned a school playground for my PhD – and the children got better marks learning outside
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the education of at least 1.5 billion school students. That’s more than 90 per cent of the world’s children. Although many schools in the west, along with private schools in...Read more
Coronavirus lockdown gives a chance to ‘correct under-investment’ in play provision
The head of a leading children’s UK play industry body hopes the right of youngsters to free play provision will be financially preserved once the corona pandemic has subsided.Read more