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In My View: Letting children play their way
By Tim Gill, play consultant and former director of the Children'sPlay Council,
Nursery World,
23 August 2007
After decades in the backwaters, children's play is moving closer to the mainstream of public policy debate. The centre-left thinktank Compass has launched a 'Charter for Childhood' that rightly joins the dots between the ever-growing commercialisation of children's lives and their loss of play opportunities.
There is growing political agreement about the reality of what playworkers call 'play deprivation'. Children are suffering because they are losing out on some crucial self-directed childhood experiences. In a speech to the Daycare Trust, shadow education secretary David Willetts argued that a loss of play opportunities has damaged children's grasp of basic science, which...
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