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Consultancy | Policy for Play

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Responding to children's forgotten right. A conversation about Play England face to face meetings. Adrian is available for consultancy work in the following areas. Writing on play policy and strategy. Reviewing local play strategies. Developing new models of provision. Contact Adrian on Twitter. Join the conversation Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email (Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.

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News Release | Policy for Play

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Responding to children's forgotten right. A conversation about Play England face to face meetings. RSS feed for this section. UN slams UK Government for lack of policy, planning and investment in play. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is highly critical of the UK Government’s recent record on children’s play, in a new report published this week. The advance (unedited) report. The CRC report notes that there are ‘insufficient places and facilities for play and leisure for chil...

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Michael Morpurgo: ‘The greatest danger you can put children in is making them feel they are not worthwhile’ | Policy for Play

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Responding to children's forgotten right. A conversation about Play England face to face meetings. Michael Morpurgo: ‘The greatest danger you can put children in is making them feel they are not worthwhile’. Michael Morpurgo: ‘The greatest danger you can put children in is making them feel they are not worthwhile’. Advocating for play at the crossroads (part 2). Blog 21 →. Join the conversation Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Help make it hap...

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In memoriam | Policy for Play

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Responding to children's forgotten right. A conversation about Play England face to face meetings. RSS feed for this section. Remembering a playful spirit. The first person to read a new post on this site was invariably my daughter, Anushka, who has tragically died, aged 24. She had struggled for years with the kind of learning difficulties that are still under-recognised: attention deficit disorder, dyslexia and dyspraxia, and since her mid-teens had suffered from debilitating episodes of the poor menta...

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MPs call for new play strategy for England, including statutory duty | Policy for Play

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Responding to children's forgotten right. A conversation about Play England face to face meetings. MPs call for new play strategy for England, including statutory duty. An influential group of MPs and Members of the House of Lords has today called for a new national play strategy for England. Healthy Patterns for Healthy Families: Removing the Hurdles to a Healthy Family. The former Labour MP Helen Clark, Chair of the Working Group and author of ‘Healthy Patterns for Healthy Families’ added: “Some ...

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The Guardian archive | Policy for Play

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Responding to children's forgotten right. A conversation about Play England face to face meetings. Between 2006 and 2011 Adrian Voce. As the Director of Play England. Was invited to write a series of comment pieces for the Guardian newspaper and website. Taken together now, they form an archive that tracks the arc of the national Play Strategy, from its inception as the major policy objective of the play movement in England to its premature termination by the Coalition government. Some room of their own.

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Playwork community says ‘yes’ to new vehicle | Policy for Play

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Responding to children's forgotten right. A conversation about Play England face to face meetings. Playwork community says ‘yes’ to new vehicle. A survey of practitioners has overwhelmingly endorsed the initiative to create a new membership body for playwork. The survey, which ran from December 2014 to March 2015, received 155 responses from playwork practitioners, including managers, trainers, lecturers, researchers, campaigners and development workers, as well as face-to-face playworkers. Some responde...

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Children’s rights’ lobby calls for statutory play duty in England | Policy for Play

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Responding to children's forgotten right. A conversation about Play England face to face meetings. Children’s rights’ lobby calls for statutory play duty in England. In what may come to be seen as a watershed moment for the campaign for children’s right to play in England, a report. The report, entitled. UK implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: civil society alternative report, 2015, to the UN Committee, England. Investing in the young despite austerity. 4 Responses to “Ch...