Before you start to design play facilities, make sure you consult with the end user first - local children. Director of Play England, Adrian Voce, believes that children's input is a crucial component of developing exciting play facilities. "Make the playground a place that responds to children's needs, find out what they like, engage with them and do proper consultation. They're the ones that know what they want to do," he says. Then you can design the site in a way that meets the children's aspirations before carrying out a risk assessment to ensure facilities are safe. "Without proper input based on what children want, the tendency will be to make it standardised and ultimately quite dull, which won't offer children the adventurous play they need," warns Voce.
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