Increasing the physical activity levels of American children would save trillions of dollars in healthcare costs and increased productivity, reveals...New computer model reveals ‘staggering’ cost of childhood inactivity
Play Wales has published its Manifesto for Children’s Play ahead of the UK general election on 8 June. Adrian Voce...Play Wales challenges UK parties
During winter and spring of this year, a Dublin-based group of young people aged 16 and 17 came together to...Spatial stories of Dublin’s youth
Parties for Play?
The UN (2016) has been clear – and a range of evidence confirms – that the UK government needs to commit to doing more for children’s play. This should include: protecting play space through a...Read more
UN links child-friendliness to environment
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s report of its General Discussion Day on children and the environment makes links between children’s freedom to play, and their ability to enjoy a healthy, sustainable environment....Read more
Britons ‘support car-free city centres’
A new survey by Volvo has found that more than half of all UK adults would be happy to tolerate only public transport being allowed in their nearest city if it meant air quality could be...Read more
Co-creating space to support young people’s rights
A practice-led research project to include young people in the creation of a public space in Wrexham town centre, North Wales, demonstrates their capacity to participate in the design process and to provide ideas to inform town planning. Research undertaken in Wrexham, North Wales, in response...Read more
Programme of Child in the City international seminar complete
Every city has its challenges to involve affected residents and businesses into their projects. Although a city is a mix of different lifestyles, a well-balanced city is created by making it child friendly: a city good...Read more
Five steps to ensure children’s rights in planning
The Scottish planning system is soon to undergo reform following an independent review. The proposals under discussion suggest an increasing recognition that children are often excluded from considerations of place. Here, Dr Jenny Wood, of Heriot Watt University,...Read more
Portugal heads children’s rights index, while UK plummets
The KidsRights Index for 2017, published yesterday, has Portugal as the global frontrunner for recognising and protecting children’s rights, while the UK is among the seriously underperforming countries, falling from 11th to 156th place in just one year. The international...Read more
Inspiring playgrounds where children need them most
With policy and funding for children around the world ever more narrowly focused on their formal education, often at the expense even of school playgrounds, Victoria Derr looks at a project that supports local communities to redress...Read more
New York ‘junk’ inspires kids to play
A new project in the heart of New York City is demonstrating that the mainly European tradition of adventure playgrounds, currently facing big challenges in the UK and elsewhere, as austerity bites, have enduring popularity wherever there are...Read more
“Those who grew up whispering”
With Europe facing some of its biggest challenges since the end of the war, this VE Day (8 May) Eleni Karasavvidou reflects on the research of WW2 historians into the plight of the continent’s children orphaned...Read more
Empowering young people through action on community environment
Action is a key not only to directly effecting environmental change, but to personal empowerment in the face of the huge challenges we face. In this article, Victoria Derr and Jeffery Morton describe the ‘action...Read more