🌟💚LauraWalsh FRSA💚🌟

(she/her) Head of Play at Starlight Children’s Foundation. Choosing joy

[🌟💚LauraWalsh FRSA💚🌟 @LLaurajwalsh]

@GarethDavies007 @KirstieMAllsopp @Neilyoung Self indulgent, long winded, tired old songs that pretty much all could have had 5 minutes comfortably shaved off.

[🌟 Kath Evans RGN RSCN 💙💛 @KathEvans2]

It was great to be at the launch of @starlight_uk & @NHSEngland Play well: guidelines for commissioning and designing health play services
@uclh with Katie from @PlayTeamRLH @RLHchildren @NHSBartsHealth fab to have this work supported by @Duncan_CNO https://t.co/3VbWLaG32r

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

Love this!

The Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in Utrecht recently introduced a special 'Infuuts' for children attached to tubes and IVs.

This way, despite their illness, they can continue to happily cycle through the hospital corridors! ❤️

[PEDAL Cam @PEDALCam]

What a fantastic way to kick things off at the #PEDALConference2024! Our key takeaways from Junlei's keynote presentation:

Simple, ordinary interactions are the building blocks of healthy development for children and adults 🧱

@143neighbor @SimpleInteract1

[Starlight @starlight_uk]

Key takeaway from today: the priceless value of simple humanity and ordinary relationships, the sort found in every community, rich or poor, in building children’s resilience. Thank you @143neighbor and @PEDALCam #PEDALConference2024

[Starlight @starlight_uk]

Thanks to our wonderful friends at @PEDALCam for a brilliant conference. Putting research to work in policy and practice for children’s play, development, health, and wellbeing #PEDALConference2024

[Starlight @starlight_uk]

We're very pleased to welcome Christian Pau to our Board of Trustees. ⭐💚

Christian is VP and General Manager of the LEGO Group for UK and Ireland, so he knows a thing or two when it comes to play!

📰 Read all about it in our latest news article: https://t.co/87tRPPGd47

[Starlight @starlight_uk]

“Play isn’t just effective for transforming children’s health, it’s important for the health of the NHS.”

We respond to Lord Darzi's report on the state of the NHS in England.

👉 Read our statement: https://t.co/ofeB2rLKlN

[Starlight @starlight_uk]

⭐ WORK WITH US ⭐

Want 'PLAY' in your job title? This could be you...

We've got an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about play in healthcare, loopy for logistics, and savvy about relationship building.

👉 Find out more and apply: https://t.co/SxB4CjgYe5

[Gail Manning 💙 @asheroo63]

Great networking and information sharing around play in healthcare yesterday. @nahpsofficial Thanks for hosting @tanyaod3 @NTPaedsNetwork Exciting to hear updates from @starlight_uk @LittJourney__ @leedscitycoll The future for play in health is looking positive @lisa_klseahorse

[🌟💚LauraWalsh FRSA💚🌟 @LLaurajwalsh]

@starlight_uk beginning to update on the workforce development element of the taskforce on children’s play in healthcare.
@FoundlingMuseum @NtpccO #healthplay

[🌟💚LauraWalsh FRSA💚🌟 @LLaurajwalsh]

Child-focused…
Meaning starting with child development, looking at what works, then spending time WITH children.
Coproduction is key!

@starlight_uk #pedalconference2024

[🌟💚LauraWalsh FRSA💚🌟 @LLaurajwalsh]

I love this!
Get the small details right- focus on evidence into action, make it engaging and fun, identify the change makers!
#pedalconference2024

[🌟💚LauraWalsh FRSA💚🌟 @LLaurajwalsh]

@sallyhogg moving evidence to impact.
How do we understand what policy-makers care about and wheat they need to know to influence them?
Improving BCYP lives.
#pedalconference2024
@starlight_uk

[Play Wales @PlayWales]

⭐️New issue of Focus on play⭐️

This issue is aimed at Regional Partnership and Public Service Boards. It considers the crucial role of children’s play in promoting positive mental health and discusses ways local and regional plans can support #play.

👉 https://t.co/Q9ejTGnGNc

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

"I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well!"

Love this woman - interviewed by @novaramedia in Barnsley today ❤

[Gail Manning 💙 @asheroo63]

Ready for fun @LNWH_NHS

[Play Wales @PlayWales]

Today is #Playday2024 – the national day for celebrating children’s right to play.

Play is every child’s right. On Playday and every day, let’s unite to create a more playful future for our children and teenagers.

👉 https://t.co/xbnVx5QeID

#PlayAndCulture @NationalPlayday

[Starlight @starlight_uk]

🧸 It's @NationalPlayday today!

Children need access to play as part of a happy, healthy childhood; including when they are sick and in hospital.

This Playday, we are calling on everyone to join together to foster a culture of supporting play.

#Playday2024 #PlayAndCulture

[🌟💚LauraWalsh FRSA💚🌟 @LLaurajwalsh]

Happy National Playday
A day to celebrate children’s play

Play’s intrinsic benefit to children, families and communities is more joy, more life and more play.
#Playday2024 #PlayAndCulture