Fair Play for Children News — Children’s Play and Youth Work
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The POWER of Play — Boy finds solace in kites amidst war devastation — WATCH HERE
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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Five children’s playgrounds with out-of-date equipment could be permanently closed — MSN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.
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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