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20th April 2024
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Playing out helps children to make friends across race, culture and backgrounds

Ingrid Skeels posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing, Community on 24/04/2023

This positive feedback comes from a recent community engagement project about playing out close to home. As a…

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How playing out helps to build children’s independence

Kate Staniforth posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing, Community, Play Streets on 29/09/2022

Building confidence for the move to secondary school Recently I’ve noticed that one of the main topics of…

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Dr William Bird on how play streets improve children’s health and wellbeing

Dr William Bird posted this in Children's play, health and wellbeing, Play Streets on 27/01/2022

In January 2022 we held a webinar where we spoke to Dr William Bird about the importance of…

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School Streets – The movement for children’s freedom grows

Daniella Radice posted this in Active Travel, Children's play, health and wellbeing, Street Space on 20/03/2019

Over the past few months, one aspect of the street play movement has grown in popularity: school streets…

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Playing Out is Published!

Alice Ferguson posted this in Activism, Playing Out Movement on 06/03/2019

International academic journal Cities and Health has published a case-study of the grassroots street play movement, written by Playing…

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