Adrian Voce

Policy for Play (eBook, ePUB)

Responding to Children's Forgotten Right

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Play is fundamental to children's health, wellbeing and development. Yet in the modern world, their space and opportunity to play is under threat. This is the first book to look in detail at children's play within public policy. Using the UK government's play strategy for England (2008-10) as a detailed case study, it explores states' obligations to children under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the General Comment of 2013. It presents evidence that strategies for public health, education and even environmental sustainability would be more effective with a better-informed perspective about the nature of play and the importance of allowing children more time and space for it. The book throws down a challenge to both play advocates and governments, to make effective policy that respects, protects and fulfils children's right to play as a priority. It is an essential tool for practitioners and campaigners around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447319443
• Artikelnr.: 44874153

Autorenporträt

Adrian Voce OBE is a writer and consultant on public provision for children's play. As Chair, then Director of the Children's Play Council (2003-6), and founding director of Play England (2006-11), he had a key role in the UK Government's Play Strategy of 2008-11. A former playworker, Adrian was the first director of London Play (1998-2004), working with the Mayor to establish a play policy for the capital city.

Inhaltsangabe

To play and to dream: restoring play to the heart of the campaign for children's rights
For a change: finding the evidence for play policy
Advocates for play: playwork's place at the heart of the play movement
New opportunities: lottery funding and the beginnings of public play policy
A vital and vibrant city: how devolved government in London set the benchmark for play policy
Making the case: the call for a national play strategy
Things to do, places to go: how play was overlooked by children's services reform
Getting serious: the national play review
Lottery millions: the Children's Play Initiative
Dirt is good: the Play England project
The best place in the world: the Play Strategy for England
Playbuilders: breaking the mould of the public playground
Everyday adventures: austerity brings an end to play policy in England
Skylarks and canaries: the legacy of the Play Strategy
A future unimagined: responding to children's right to play: conclusions and recommendations.