Attentive adults increase children’s ability to empathise
Adults play a large part in helping children to develop empathy at an early age, according to new research carried out in Sweden. Researchers at Lund University found that adults engaging with children in social situations...Read more
Share good practice at Child in the City World Conference 2018
Not only content with being universally recognised as the city of music, Vienna will also this year become the city of children. As host of Child in the City World Conference 2018, Austria’s capital will...Read more
How parents can support children after traumatic events
Many children will be exposed to a traumatic situation – where there is a threat to life or serious injury – at some point in their childhood. Such events can range from serious road or...Read more
Policy for play needs a long-term approach
In this second part of an adaptation of his presentation to the Child in the City international seminar in London last month, Adrian Voce suggests that creating optimum conditions for children to play as their...Read more
Watch the webinar replay of the Child in the City International Seminar
The Child in the City International Seminar in London about Children’s Play in the Urban Environment earlier this month was very inspirational. Did you miss this event? We are happy to announce that all plenary...Read more
Play sufficiency is a question of spatial justice
Wales is the first country in the world to legislate specifically for children’s play. In this latest in our series of interviews to coincide with today’s conference on Children’s Play in the Urban Environment, Mike Barclay and Ben...Read more
Children’s need to play demands a long term strategy
Ahead of the Child in the City international seminar on children’s play to be held in London on 6-7 November, we feature the third and final part of an adapted extract from Policy for Play by Adrian...Read more
New playwork body to launch at London event
The Playwork Foundation, the new membership body for playwork practitioners, is launching a membership scheme at an event in London next month. The Playwork Foundation has announced a launch event to be held at Goldsmiths University of...Read more
IPA conference highlights play sector challenges
In the second part of this reflection on themes of the IPA world conference in Calgary, Robin Sutcliffe identifies funding cuts and parental anxiety as major obstacles to the aspirations of play advocates, leaving providers...Read more
Space for children’s play must be central to a vision for the public realm
Ahead of the forthcoming Child in the City event on Children’s Play in the Urban Environment, in this second of a three-part essay adapted from his book, Policy for Play (2015), Adrian Voce sets out the rationale...Read more
Policymakers should look again at children’s play
Looking forward to the International Seminar on Children’s Play in the Urban Environment, to be held in London on 6-7 November, in this first of a three-part essay adapted from his 2015 book Policy for...Read more
Look back in play – part 1
Uncovering a stash of unseen photographs took landscape architect Maisie Rowe back to her childhood – and forward to a meditation on the importance of spaces for play. Over four parts, she tells the story...Read more
Six features of family-friendly planning
In this second part of her synopsis of one of the key themes of the recent Child in the City seminar in Rotterdam, Lia Karsten identifies that the key features of successful urban planning for...Read more
Children’s play is not a springboard, it is the water
In this second part of his comment piece about a national project to ‘use play as a springboard into sport’, Adrian Voce suggests that policymakers would serve children better, including the desired aim of increasing...Read more