After visiting the adventure playground yesterday, today's Guardian Long Read was about playgrounds. A fascinating piece about playground design, inspiration and the understanding that play is an essential building block for learning & social development
https://t.co/7RalWQlMgn
I do wonder if by minimising break times at schools, creating adult led-activities for all playtimes and reducing the amount of 'free' playtime children have we are taking away their chance to learn how to negotiate, manage conflict and entertain themselves.
The UK is the world's fifth largest economy, but one fifth of its population live in poverty and 1.5 million of them experienced destitution in 2017. The UN's special rapporteur on extreme poverty has called poverty in the UK "systemic" and "tragic" https://t.co/Fr0gHHJQmq
We want to establish the facts about adventure play, #risk - and insurance - please RT and ask anyone who works at an #adventureplayground to fill in this very quick survey asap! https://t.co/QygNyzeq09 @playengland@hackneyplay