New guidance from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) encourages local authority senior executives and their partners on children's trusts to build on this success, by making sure everyday opportunities for healthy, active play are part of the statutory planning framework for both children's services and the built environment.
Embedding the Play Strategy, developed for the DCSF by Play England, will assist directors of children's services and their partners to deliver play services through a multi-agency approach, and sets out a step-by-step guide to planning and commissioning play services, play areas and playable public space.
The aim of the guidance and the programme is to support children's trusts to take the lead in both the services and the spaces that play needs, and for local planners and managers of public space to respond more positively to children's social, recreational and cultural lives.
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