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Adventure playgrounds: the essential elements

 

Understanding and responding to  young Londoners’ changing needs

May 2020: Youth & Policy

This report takes an in-depth look at the needs of young people in five London boroughs – Barking & Dagenham, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Waltham Forest – and considers how young people’s needs have changed, and are continuing to change, in these areas. Young people taking part rated the need for services such as adventure playgrounds and youth clubs as particularly acute.

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An updated briefing drawing on the work of expert play theorists and practitioners

May 2017:  Play England

This updated briefing draws on the work of an expert group of play theorists and practising playworkers convened by Play England to identify the unique characteristics of the adventure playground model of play provision. It incorporates learning from adventure play support programmes delivered by Play England since 2006 and reflects thinking from an online debate initiated by London Play in 2012.

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Children and young people
This evaluation of the Street Play Project delivered by London Play, Playing Out and Play England includes persuasive arguments for the public health benefits of play streets.

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