Welcome the Free Play Network
The Free Play Network is a network of individuals and organisations, which
aims to promote the need for better play opportunities for children.
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10 Design Principles
This photo exhibition is based on the forthcoming publication
Design for Play: A guide to creating successful play spaces,
by Aileen Shackell, Nicola Butler, Phil Doyle and David Ball,
to be published by Play England and the Department for Children,
Schools and Families. It highlights 10 key principles for
designing play spaces that meet the play needs of children
and young people.
www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/designforplay
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Online Discussion Forum Highlights
It's worth remembering why attitudes to, and understandings
about, risk matter. There is a danger that discussions about
risk become focused on, and are reduced to, the merely technical.
But how we think about and respond to risk in part defines
what it is we think it is to be human.
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/risk.
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Online Discussion Forum, Concluding Remarks
by Nicola Butler and Bernard Spiegal
This joint PLAYLINK/Free Play Network Discussion Forum was
prompted by questions and concerns from practitioners about
how child protection should be interpreted in a range of settings.
Read more at:
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/childprotection.
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The second in a series of PLAYLINK
and Free Play Network online discussion fora is now closed.
Linked with the Places
of Woe: Places of Possibility exhibition, the forum explored
ideas and practice involved in creating best possible places
for play. Read our concluding
remarks.
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/placesforplay
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PLAYLINK
and the Free Play Network have launched a new addition to
their free, online photo exhibition, PLACES for PLAY. Places
of Woe: Places of Possibility shows just how bad play
provision can be - and how good.
http://www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/
exhibition/woepossibility
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Too often poor design robs children of vital opportunities
to learn and be healthy and wastes public money. PLACES for
PLAY is intended to inspire a more imaginative approach to
the creation of play spaces and public space, one founded
on understanding the needs and wishes of children.
More information about
PLACES for PLAY >>
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