We write to clarify our aims in surveying the field about a potential new body for playwork (Backing sought for national body to champion play, www.cypnow.co.uk, 13 February).
We are exploring the viability of a membership body for playwork practitioners, not one to address the wider matter of children's right to play, as your piece implied. This role is already being fulfilled in various ways by the UK's national play charities.
The benefits of playwork services to children are well established but there is no practitioner body for playwork. In 2013, Skillsactive launched its Register of Playwork Professionals but no longer has a unit to develop it.
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