Archive for the 'Risk and Play' Category

• Play in School - Releasing the strangle-hold »

  Playwords article by Bernard Spiegal.
  The first article in this two-part series noted that ‘Health and Safety’ considerations appeared to exert a ‘strangle-hold’ on schools…

  Posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 in Articles, Policy and Strategy, Risk and Play
• Green Places Magazine Article: The starting point for play »

  So far as we are aware, no negligence claims have been lodged against local
  authorities for inducing boredom in children, or for limiting the scope…

  Posted on Sunday, April 1st, 2007 in Articles, Risk and Play
• 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
• Leisure Manager - Risk, play and policy - Counsel Opinion »

  Raymond Machell QC, in PLAYLINK commissioned Counsel Opinion, concluded that:
  ‘… it is entirely legitimate for PLAYLINK to emphasise, in its Play Policy, the need to balance against the risk of injury, the benefits to children and young persons of undertaking play activities within an acceptable level of risk. Central, however, to the exercise of [...]

  Posted on Sunday, October 8th, 2006 in Articles, Risk and Play