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About Robin Sutcliffe

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Robin Sutcliffe is Managing Director of Sutcliffe Play Ltd. Robin cares deeply about the many, often controversial issues surrounding children's play and is a significant authority representing his industry at regional, national and European levels, as an expert on the safety of children at play, the topics of inclusivity and risk in the playground, play space design, community consultation and the role of play in regeneration.

Sutcliffe Play was a founder member of the Association of Play Industries. A former Chairman, Robin now represents the Association on the Children's Play Policy Forum and Chairs the National Play Safety Forum. He represented the UK during the writing of the European Standard for play equipment.

A founder member and Vice President of the Federation of European Play Industries (FEPI), he also chairs F.E.P.I.'s safety committee - the European Play Safety Forum. F.E.P.I.'s aim is to bring together companies from the play sector right across Europe to improve the quality of children's play experience.

More locally, he is chair of Yorkshire Play, whose overall aim it is to promote access to excellent play and playwork opportunities in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

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Robin Sutcliffe

Free Play Network, 129 Lancaster Road, New Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN4 8AJ. Tel 020 8440 9276.