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School’s Out: Why Freedom for Children Matters

Ingrid Skeels posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing on 30/07/2014

The summer holidays are here and that – potentially – means one important, wonderful thing for children: freedom!…

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Free play in a puddle
Why Play Out? Ten Good Reasons for Street Play

Alice posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing, Play Streets on 17/07/2014

In the early stages of the Playing Out project, before it even was a project, Amy Rose and I…

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Do we love cars more than children?

Alice posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing, Street Space on 06/09/2013

I had thought about writing an article linking the recent ‘news’ that children in the UK are stuck…

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Why A More Natural Childhood Matters

Ingrid posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing on 01/01/2013

“Close your eyes and think of your best play memory when you were a child…” We were asked…

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Children’s Freedom Over the Decades

Ingrid posted this in Activism, Children's play, health and wellbeing on 01/10/2012

Cast your mind back to your childhood. Not the hours at school, the family outings or the organised…

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