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Free Play Network News, Issue No. 6, July - August 2004

• Making the Connections in Balmaha
• DfES consultation on extending Ofsted regulation
• Promotion of Volunteering Bill raises concerns
• Phase Two Playwork Values Consultation
• Making the Case for Play Funding
• Do we need a UK wide lobbying committee for play?
• Children are Unbeatable
• And now some good news on the Children's Bill
• Developing Models for Sustainable Play Provision
• Play Posters now available

Free Play Network News, Issue No. 5, April - May 2004

• East of the sun and west of the moon, a new accessible playground in Copenhagen
• Registering Summer Schemes, latest information from Ofsted
• Play in Hull, could the Free Play Network sponsor an event near you?
• 7th PLAYLINK / Portsmouth Conference, presentations from the conference are now available
• Public Space Manifesto, the new manifesto from CABE Space
• The 51 Minute Challenge, conference report
• Playwork Principles, Play Wales consultation on playwork assumptions and values
• On the Benefits of Self-Build, Simon Rix and Ted Keen respond to Robin Sutcliffe's letter on the use of fixed play equipment by adventure playgrounds

Free Play Network News, Issue No. 4, February 2004

• Adventure Play 24 hours a day
• I am a Fire Starter
• Getting Serious About Play
• Ofsted Queries
• Ofsted's Future of Inspection consultation
• Children's Fund Developments
• CRB Check Fees Increase Again
• Can you help?
  

Free Play Network News, Issue No. 3, November 2003

• Every Child Matters, time for your input
• Making space for play in the countryside, Chris Snell visits the Spinney in Lincolnshire
• Fire Works, what can you do if the fire department is a dampener?
• Play in Parliament, MPs hold their first debate on Play
• National Play Strategy, the latest developments
• Discovering Discover, the new play centre in Stratford
• PLAYLINK/Portsmouth Conference, 4 March 2004
• Same Difference? playwork and early years
• Kidsactive bulletin on inclusive play, how inclusive are you?
• Your views, readers respond to the last edition of Free Play Network news
• Telegraph Poll, adventure playgrounds with fixed equipment, does it work?
  

Free Play Network News, Issue No. 2, September 2003

• Play on the Range, Chris Snell reports on how Cambridge City Council have adapted their play service to reach more children.
• 'Every Child Matters' - your response, by Sandra Melville
• Developing Play Policies, by Bernard Spiegal
• Insurance - a result, by Sandra Melville
• National Standards - no change yet, by Sandra Melville
• New Housing - what about play, by Sandra Melville
• Open for Play - new guidance from PLAYLINK.
• Play Policy or No Play Policy? - Katie Snook, Play Development Officer for the London Borough of Croydon responds.

Free Play Network News, Issue No. 1, June 2003

• Playing out on the Street, Chris Snell visits a new initiative from Leeds Play Network.
• No Policy but plenty of Pizza. Is a play policy essential to developing quality play opportunities?
• Write it Down, a new approach to the problem of insurance. Will it work for you?