"Tick-box" playgrounds, rising numbers of "no ball games" signs, play curfews... My column in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on "deplaytion" - inspired by the Chernobyl-like property developer-run playground on my street:

Excited about discussing regional inequalities at the Fiscal Studies symposium event next week! We've got a star-studded lineup of @andyburnham.bsky.social, Paul Collier, Philip McCann, @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @amcanning.bsky.social and more. Summary of new papers below 🧵👇

EVENT: No place like home? The crisis of child homelessness in the UK The latest official figures reveal 172,420 homeless children in England are now living in temporary accommodation. Join us to explore the solutions needed to end to child homelessness in the UK. ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/no-pl...

Anyone else worried about govt funding cliff edges at the end of March? Safe taskforces, PEIAs, other pots supporting attendance and behaviour all stopping. I get the need for a CSR and this govt wants to do their own thing, but it feels like a lot of stuff that's ending will just need reinventing.

Not if you’re doing it properly

Fantastic piece by @amcanning.bsky.social for @schoolsweek.bsky.social in response to our latest report on breakfast clubs. 🥣 'NTP concluded with regret all round, a stark reminder of how good policy can falter in delivery. None of us want to see a repeat' schoolsweek.co.uk/breakfast-cl...

Feel like I’ve forgotten how to interact on a platform like this. Past few years on Twitter I just reposted work stuff and gave up on much else.