Fair Play for Children News — Children’s Play and Youth Work

Jan Cosgrove
27 min readJan 2, 2025

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including Children’s Play, Sport, Arts, Recreation, Creativity, Cultural, Youth Work

Fair Play for Children website: http://www.fairplay31.online/index.html

The POWER of Play — Boy finds solace in kites amidst war devastation — WATCH HERE

News from Play England

News from Play Scotland

News from Play Wales

News from Playing Out

Read previous editions to 22nd December 2024

10th February 2025: 64 new stories inc 2 video

New ‘destination’ children’s play park set to open — Yahoo News UK

Guide to risky playgrounds in Melbourne

Compton Park playground closed for safety, will be torn down — Yahoo

18 Unsafe Playground Features from the 1970s That Somehow Everyone Survived — MSN

Dresser drains playground fund to balance budget | News | osceolasun.com

Playgrounds need to be safe — Montana Standard

Youth rowing group doing amazing work in Warrington is looking for support

Villagers ‘very close’ to new play area dream

Is this joyless playground the worst in the UK? — Yahoo News UK

A NEW sensory room for children and adults with disabilities has opened at Elemore Country Park

Reception pupils play part in songbird survival during winter — Yahoo News UK

7 of the best family-friendly cruises with activities for kids — The Independent

PICTURES: It’s child’s play for Greenock nursery and its new outdoor space

31st January 2025: 67 new stories inc 1 video

Rubies, Parentkind, World Book Day Donate Costumes to Help Children Find the Fun in Reading

The Toy My Kids Play with Every Day (Inside and Outside!) — Yahoo Life UK

New equipment for popular play area with ‘very little left’ approved — Yahoo News UK

Work begins at UK’s first fully accessible play centre for disabled children — Bristol24/7

Vandalism causes playground closure — Bundaberg Now

Photos show playgrounds before health and safety kicked in — Sheffield Star

Inverclyde Youth Work Services offering chance to DJ

Youth worker’s powerful open letter to Leo Ross family as he takes aim at service cuts

‘Total mess’: Anger at the state of some of Newport’s play parks — Yahoo News UK

Old dance school in Sutton could be turned into children’s play area — latest Ashfield plans

21st January 2025: 55 new stories worldwide inc 8 video

Fair Play for Children seeks Internal Review after ‘unsatisfactory’ answers by Birmingham Council to FoI about Youth Cuts

Watch. “L’Échappée sauvage”. You Tube

Children’s Play Area Inaugurated at Kulshekar Chowki — News Karnataka

£400k South London ‘pocket park’ hopes raised after hundreds of parents demand playground

Part of popular children’s park cordoned off — Yahoo News UK

Flint Schools donates playground equipment, iPads to shelter

Five children’s playgrounds with out-of-date equipment could be permanently closed — MSN

12 Dangerous Playground Activities That Were Totally Normal in the ’70s — MSN

Children’s play area closed for one month while improvement works carried out

Somerset children’s play centre suddenly closes — Yahoo News UK

14th January 2025: 62 new stories worldwide inc 1 video

“That this House has considered the provision of playgrounds by local authorities”

8th January 2025

READ: Playgrounds — Hansard — UK Parliament

Tom Hayes MP, Bournemouth East (Lab). 8th January 2025

Thank you for the opportunity to lead this important Westminster Hall debate on the future of playgrounds under your chairship, Mrs Lewell-Buck. Fixing our public services and securing our unity as a country are serious issues to consider and serious goals to pursue. We need to be on the side of working people. We also need to be on the side of playing children: we need to be as serious about the play of children as we are about the work of adults. If anyone listening is in doubt, that is because our country has trivialised play for too long. I am astonished that there has only ever been one national play strategy, which was launched 17 years ago. I am also astonished that this is the first debate on the subject in eight years and — at an hour — the longest for 17 years.

Read full text HERE

MPs Unite for Children’s Right to Play: Cross-Party Support …

The Stage 100 2025: children’s theatre and young people

Child’s play was my first real occupation — Moscow-Pullman Daily News

New card game helps children to prepare for emergencies — Angus World

Why Roblox is popular among kids and teens in the UK — London Daily News

Residents Question Safety Measures to be Taken at New Proposed Adaptive Playground — TAPinto

Croydon’s youth fear voices less likely to be heard under shake-up — South London Press

Minister praises Bucks charity for its ‘incredible work’ with young people — Yahoo News UK

Youth Action building new paths for young people — Yahoo News UK

New soft play and cafe for Glasgow southside as former coffee shop is transformed

‘It was a nightmare’ — play area refurb leaves young children ‘hysterical’ — Yahoo News UK

Putting children and young people at the heart of housing design | Opinion

Melfina Kyere: Empowering children through diverse dolls | London Daily News

Colliers Adventure Farm Achieves Sustainability Milestones — Caerphilly County Borough Council

‘Disgusting’ vandals destroy new £1million play equipment in Erith — Yahoo News UK

‘Please don’t take risks’ — Police warning after children play on frozen pond at Hartlepool park

Neighbours in Reading encouraged to explore parks — Reading Chronicle

2nd January 2025: 41 new stories worldwide

Delays halt arrival of new train-themed play park in Ashford High Street — MSN

Newly-refurbished children’s play area in the city officially reopens — Yahoo News UK

Cricket’s inclusive — Jersey Evening Post

Charity raises more than £50k through Christmas appeal — Yahoo News UK

Adventure park unveils accessible playground for children with disabilities — MSN

Jersey Airport announce plans to introduce a children’s play area and new duty-free shop

Tattooed dad finds children’s playground surprisingly terrifying

Newly-refurbished children’s play area in the city officially reopens — Yahoo News UK

From sad to bad: Hundreds of neglected Vic playgrounds a safety risk — Herald Sun

(PDF) Navigating Wellbeing Through Youth Work and Participatory Research — ResearchGate

Vandals branded ‘morons’ after trashing Horsham children’s play park — Sussex Express

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Jan Cosgrove
Jan Cosgrove

Written by Jan Cosgrove

National Secretary of Fair Play for Children, Also runs Bognor Regis Herald online. Plus runs British Music Radio online

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