Archive for the 'Policy and Strategy' Category

• Green Places magazine article by Bernard Spiegal: Consultation: don’t ask? »

  I want in this article to criticise what is commonly termed ‘consultation’.
  I want in particular to criticise ‘consultation’ as it too often affects decisions about play provision…

  Posted on Friday, September 19th, 2008 in Articles, Places for Play, Policy and Strategy
• 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
• PLAYLINK response to Fair Play »

  PLAYLINK welcomes many of the commitments to be found in Fair Play… However, we have major reservations…

  Posted on Monday, July 14th, 2008 in Open Letters, Policy and Strategy
• 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
• Lost Conversations: some thoughts on consultation »

  It is an irony, perhaps, that enthusiasm for
  children and young people’s consultation and participation coincides with a
  period in which their scope for independent choice…

  Posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2007 in Policy and Strategy
• PLAYLINK Comments on the London Plan Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance »

  PLAYLINK welcomes what we take to be the general intent and focus of the Guidance.
  Our reservations revolve around concerns about how the Guidance, as currently formulated, will be understood and used in practice.

  Posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 in Policy and Strategy
• Leisure manager article - Oh, not another strategy - play strategy »

  I address you as members of the real world, where the space between plans and actions, between rhetoric and reality, is lived. To this world has been added an additional requirement: the need to formulate a comprehensive play strategy. And many of you are eager to set about the task: it’s [...]

  Posted on Sunday, January 8th, 2006 in Articles, Policy and Strategy
• Play Today Article - Play strategies: hype or hope? »

  By the time you read this you should know that you need a play strategy. I’ll take that knowledge as my baseline position and not trouble you further about the formal reasons.

  Posted on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005 in Articles, Policy and Strategy