Playlink Issues

This is the section where we keep a range of written materials which may be of interest including: published articles, papers and open letters.

• 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
• Report on Findings of PLAYLINK’s Playground Procurement and Maintenance Survey »

  PLAYLINK, along with others, has long
  felt that procurement practice too often militates against creating best
  possible playable spaces …

  Posted on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in Places for Play
• 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
• 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
• 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
• PLAYLINK correspondance with Big Lottery on the Play Fund »

  PLAYLINK letter to Big Lottery »
  Big Lottery’s response to PLAYLINK letter »
  PLAYLINK response to Big Lottery response »
  Further response from Big Lottery »

  Posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 in Open Letters, Organisational Support
• Green Spaces Magazine Article: Green Places - BIG play concerns »

  Key aims of the Big Lottery’s play programme include creating and improving free play opportunities. Good. It is, however, one thing to articulate desired ends, quite another to have a realistic sense of how they might be achieved. Understanding the connection between means and ends is part of the [...]

  Posted on Monday, December 11th, 2006 in Articles, Organisational Support
• Further response from Big Lottery »

  Although my earlier letter answered the points you raise, I will take this opportunity to reiterate the rationale for the programme timetable. As you know, the play sector has been waiting a long time for this funding.

  Posted on Monday, December 11th, 2006 in Open Letters, Organisational Support
• PLAYLINK response to Big Lottery response »

  We believe that it is right in principle that the type of questions we raised should be placed in the public domain. Openness brings its own rewards, contributing to the establishment of trust-based relationships - particularly important in the context of the children’s play programme upon which so many hopes rest.

  Posted on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 in Open Letters, Organisational Support