Archive for the 'General' Category

• Common Sense, Common Safety »

  The submission to Lord Young’s review ‘Health and Safety and the Compensation Culture’ by the authors of ‘Managing Risk in Play Provision: implementation guide’ – Professor David Ball, Tim Gill, Bernard Spiegal – is reproduced here’.

  Posted on Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 in General
• Oh, I thought we agreed »

  A paper prompted by Scottish National Heritage’s recent ‘Sharing Good Practice, School Grounds for Nature, Health, Learning, Play and Social Development’ conference. Points raised have wider application.

  Posted on Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 in General
• Encounters with reality – creating a shared, playable public realm »

  An interview with Liz Kessler, former Urban Designer with EC1 New Deal for Communities (NDC).

  Posted on Monday, December 14th, 2009 in General
• Risk-benefit Assessment Form »

  Risk-benefit Assessment Form: Draft - 6 December 2009
  ‘Risk-benefit assessment is a suitable and sufficient risk assessment that brings together an analysis of both risk and benefits’
  ‘There is no legal requirement to eliminate or minimise risk, even where children are concerned.’
  Managing Risk in Play Provision: implementation guide
  Preamble
  The form, with its introductory notes below, aim to assist [...]

  Posted on Friday, December 11th, 2009 in General
• Slow Build for Playscapes by Grant Lambie »

  Slow design gives the best playscapes.

  Posted on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 in General
• PLAYLINK assessment of Forestry Commission’s play provision »

  Includes sections on consultation, teenagers, risk, standards, play offer, publicity and promotion. Of interest to those responsible for unsupervised play provision, shared public space, and destination venues.

  Posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 in Articles, General, Places for Play, Sections
• Comments on Play England’s draft Play Indicators Quality Assessment Tool »

  The Play Indicators Quality Assessment tool is conceptually
  flawed. It cannot do the job that it claims is its aim…

  Posted on Friday, April 27th, 2007 in General, Policy and Strategy
• Negligence, play and risk - legal opinion »

  PLAYLINK commissioned authoritative legal opinion – known as Counsel Opinion – to consider whether PLAYLINK’s approach to policy and practice provides:

  Posted on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 in General, Risk and Play
• Play in Educational Settings »

  Over the past year, the importance of play for children’s learning and development has become more widely acknowledged at a national level. This paper addresses…

  Posted on Monday, October 9th, 2006 in General, Places for Play