Fuck Yes! 🌳 Via @Rubblechops #shitplanning

This is real structural shifting I’m the power dynamic. Structural support and valuing of children’s rights to play. #SummerofPlay

Take over an amazing team if…. You’re a good leader/manager You love play You’re passionate about therapeutic play You’re an advocate and have resilience to challenges Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Society of Health Play Specialists

Bravo bearing witness is a powerful and necessary step—keep being bolder, louder and all encompassing!

A huge congratulations to all of our #TeamStarlight runners at the marathon yesterday - you absolutely smashed it 🥇💪 Here's some of our favourite shots from the day. We're so proud 🤩

"I’m the proudest Brummie there is, and this is where my kids will grow up. The council has to take some radical, bold and brave steps." Amazing news from the UK's motor city. Thank you Waseem Zaffar MBE for your leadership. theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/o…?

SUCH a great film. In children's own words, it gets across both the (huge) benefits of and barriers to #activetravel. Let's stop "encouraging" children to be more active and actually make it safe and possible! London Child Obesity Taskforce Tim Gill #saferstreets youtu.be/3lA1EUxde90

Calling all teachers, play workers and practitioners! Find out about how children have been playing during the pandemic and share your own examples. Free online interactive session on 2nd November at 18.30 (UK time) #pandemicplay player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/corona-…

👀👉Join us as we explore the difference between the rhetoric and reality of listening to children and young people and how we understand children’s voice through participatory research. Register for free: bit.ly/3vxzyC6

🗣️@wkrussell “Adults have created conditions that make it hard for children to keep themselves well. We need to put that right” We agree & today share our 3year strategy using the #PowerOfPlay to support children, families, schools & communities. playgloucestershire.org.uk/three_year_str…

So, finally, when contemporary discourse in the EU questions whether we have the right to exist, calls us animals, and encourages our extermination, remind me how the Jimmy Carr joke is funny? (15/15)

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Poetry in motion.

Ultimately this is about creating environments that ‘work’ for children, or that children can ‘work’, where they are able to navigate themselves to the resources on offer and make practical use of them. 7/7 buff.ly/3Hxgrgb

These amazing Playworkers are crowdfunding so that they can continue their work. If you can spare some money this is a great project.

And if you do want to follow a little lad making bowls, and other things from wood, feel free to follow on instagram: clarkie_woodwork Happy Easter to you all!🐣🙏❤️ 15/15

It’s gonna be good!

📣Have your say - Welsh Government wants your views on changes to the National Minimum Standards for regulated childcare for children up to the age of 12 years. Play Wales’ draft response will be published soon. Closing date is 20 Sept 2022. Find out more: bit.ly/3a1XHKS

If you can't take up the fight it's time to support the protesters doing the difficult work.

Every child has #FundamentalRights. All children should be protected and their best interests ensured. Rights for all, all for rights. The #EURightsAgency can help - #OurDataYourAlly. See for yourself: europa.eu/!Y8GTGT