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“We think about bins and cars more than children”

Alice Ferguson posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing, Street Space on 29/02/2024

On Monday 26th February the Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into Children, Young People and the Built Environment held…

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Alice Ferguson and Ingrid Skeels, Playing Out Directors, standing in front of the UK Houses of Parliament
From play streets to parliament – making the case for children to play out

Ingrid Skeels posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing, Street Space on 25/01/2024

This week Playing Out presented oral evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into children and the built environment, held…

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four children in the street
The ripple effects of playing out

Jo Chesterman posted this in Activism, Community, Play Streets, Street Space on 22/03/2023

I organised a play street for 4 years between 2014-2018 in St George, Bristol. Our street has only…

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A large group of people gathered on Dartmoor to protest the removal of the right to wild camp
Right to Roam Near Home

Alice Ferguson posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing, Street Space on 31/01/2023

Last week, 3,000 people gathered on Dartmoor to march in protest at the public’s “right to roam” in…

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Promoting inclusivity in the outdoors

Zoe Banks Gross posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing, Community on 03/11/2021

Zoe is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and a Playing Out board member. In this blog, she…

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Playing Out Bicycles
Want to “level-up” AND improve children’s lives? Let them play out!

Alice Ferguson posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing, Play Streets on 28/09/2021

Two policy reports published this week both, from very different angles, highlight the urgency of restoring children’s ability…

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