A new Parliamentary Committee report has called for investment in the UK’s playgrounds to halt and reverse the alarming decline in their numbers and safeguard children’s mental health.
The APPG on a Fit and Healthy Childhood has published the Covid Generation: A Mental Health Pandemic in the Making paper calling for a major investment in public, free-to-use play spaces to help reverse the negative impact on children of repeated lockdowns.
Research carried out by the Association of Play Industries showed that spending in recent years on play facilities has fallen by 44 per cent since 2017/18, with 347 playgrounds closed since 2014.
Mark Hardy, chair of the API, says: “The lack of outdoor play and the amount of time spent alone, inactive and on screens, is fuelling the unprecedented rise in children’s mental health problems. Playgrounds are a lifeline to communities. For children in disadvantaged areas and the one in eight UK households without a garden particularly, they are often the only opportunity for free, outdoor play.
“The government is now presented with a rare opportunity to mitigate the damage to children caused by lockdown and to support their health and wellbeing for generations to come. One simple yet powerful public health measure – investment in a national network of sustainable public play spaces – would dramatically improve the lives of millions of children.”
The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published its annual statistics about the social housing sector.
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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has set a 2029 timeline for the removal of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) from all schools an
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The government has announced new emergency measures to tackle the current housebuilding crisis in London and unlock tens of thousands of homes.
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The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) new framework on Language Services (RM6302), dealing with translation, transcription and interpreting, is live, running from 7th May 2025 to 6th May 2028.
