Last few spaces available for the Playworkers Forum 2024 – 85% have been sold.

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Happy #EarthDay !🌍💚
... and Happy #WalesOutdoorLearningWeek 🌳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

To celebrate, let's give children plenty of opportunities to play, learn and have fun outdoors in nature.

Check out our top tips for making it a playful week👇
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👀 Looking for some weekend reading? The new issue of our e-bulletin is full of the latest play-related:
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Next week is #WalesOutdoorLearningWeek (22 – 28 April🌳🌼🦋

Whether you're a playworker, educator, community group, parent or carer – help children enjoy the benefits of nature through playing, learning and spending time outdoors.

Find out more – naturalresources.wales/about-us/news-…

Do you work or involved in any face to face play? Do you use the Play Cycle in your practice. This could be playwork, childcare, early years, in a therapeutic context (e.g. hospital). If you do, could you take part in a short survey please swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a3… please share

Thank you to everyone who has ordered printed copies of our 'Playwork guides' so far.

There are still a limited number available to order for free if you live or work in Wales, plus a small postage fee.

For more information, visit: play.wales/news/play-wale…

Who will you nominate for The Play Award this year?!

Entries for the Children & Young People Now 2024 Awards are open – your chance to put forward those who you feel deserve to be celebrated.

Find out more: cypnowawards.com/CYPNOW2024/en/…

⏰❗️Just three days left to tell us your thoughts and be in with a chance to win a £25 voucher!

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Closing date: 12 April 2024

Want to be part of a global movement that champions and protects children’s right to play?...

⭐️Join IPA Cymru Wales today!⭐️

A range of membership levels are available for individuals living / working in Wales, and organisations operating in Wales.

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It’s #WorldHealthDay this Sunday (7 April) 💚

Our latest issue of ‘Play for Wales’ includes an article by Professor Helen Dodd, Gill Hearnshaw and Dr Lily FitzGibbon about the importance of free play for children’s mental health.

Read the magazine in full👇
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🙌 Good news! The deadline to complete our survey has been extended to 12 April 2024.

Please tell us what you think about our information service – completed surveys will be entered into a draw to win a £25 voucher.

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📚🧑‍💻👩‍💻 Time to catch-up on some reading?

Take a look at the publications we’ve produced and circulated so far this year 👇

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💬 Remember to have your say...

Tell us what you think of the information we provide for play professionals and anyone with an interest in children and teenagers’ play in Wales. You could win a £25 voucher.

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🎉 We’re excited to share that the United Nations has adopted the annual International Day of Play.

This global day of recognition for children’s play will take place on 11 June 2024, and every year after.

Find out more👇
internationaldayofplay.org

#UNGA #InternationalDayofPlay

In case you missed it – our latest ‘Play for Wales’ magazine is out now.

This issue revisits the theme of playing and being well, with articles exploring the benefits of play on children’s mental health an wellbeing.

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Our latest info sheet, by Emeritus Professor Fraser Brown, explores the consequences of play deprivation on children's wellbeing, and shows the positive effects of using a playwork approach to overcome them.

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Have you filled out our short survey yet about the information we provide? Your views are important to us.

Completed surveys will be entered into a draw to win a £25 gift voucher!

Closing date: 5 April 2024

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👩‍💻👨‍💻 New e-bulletin

Catch up on reading the latest play related news, publications, events and funding offers this weekend in our packed monthly e-bulletin.

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