PLAY - IMPLEMENTING THE PLAY STRATEGY
Children's play could be about to take a seat at the top table in every local authority, after Play England revealed its recommendations at the show for the government document Implementing the Play Strategy, due out in June.
The strategy sets out the government's intention to have children's trusts leading the delivery of local play provision, with children's needs central to the planning of the wider Local Strategic Partnership.
The groups charged with implementing this are the play partnerships, composed of representatives from play organisations, training suppliers and service providers from various sectors in the council.
Leading one of the workshops, Adrian Voce, director of Play England, the organisation guiding the government's delivery of the strategy, said: "Our intention is that play partnerships are positioned much higher up in every local authority, reporting directly to children's trusts, in order that the public realm becomes more child-friendly."
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