🚨 We’re Recruiting: Independent Chair, Senior Independent Director & Independent Director 🚨 Help lead our bold, new 10-year strategy #ItAllStartsWithPlay! Find out more & apply by 23 Oct 👉 www.playengland.org.uk/newsblog/wer... #IndependentDirectors #Chair #Trustee #CharityLeadership

Yesterday we launched the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Play (@appgonplay.bsky.social) 🎉 We're already 40 MPs and Peers strong, working together to: ✅ Push for a National Play Strategy ✅ Champion play sufficiency law ✅ Put play back at the heart of childhood

Huge well done to @playengland.bsky.social @eugeneminogue.bsky.social & @tomhayesmp.bsky.social for getting an English Play Sufficiency Duty to this point. Please ask your MP to support this amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill www.playengland.org.uk/newsblog/big...

It was wonderful to meet @eugeneminogue.bsky.social and the Association of Play Industries at the @playengland.bsky.social launch! Thank you inviting me to this special occasion. #ItAllStartsWithPlay #play #OutdoorPlay #RiskyPlay

Thank you to @playengland.bsky.social and @eugeneminogue.bsky.social for a wonderful launch! #ItAllStartsWithPlay

Pretty grand start to the day! It was for a very important occasion, @playengland.bsky.social's launch of #ItAllStartsWithPlay. Let the children #play! @eugeneminogue.bsky.social

This is not part of my usual morning routine. I was honoured to be part of @playengland.bsky.social and @eugeneminogue.bsky.social's #ItAllStartsWithPlay initiative. Let the children #play!

Play England's new strategy recognises all the ways children play & that it's not them that need fixing but the systems round them. bit.ly/43AoFlFC Congrats @eugeneminogue.bsky.social @profhelendodd.bsky.social @naomilott.bsky.social Paul Brindley @mic-martin.bsky.social @geekdadgamer.bsky.social

More coverage of the launch of Play England’s play strategy and the new APPG for Play, with an emphasis on trying to establish a play sufficiency duty in England (hopefully one that extends beyond the planning system and beyond new build) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Play sufficiency means making sure that every child has enough time, space, opportunity and freedom to play – wherever they live.” @eugeneminogue.bsky.social

Play England launches its new 10-year strategy today, along with the formation of the first-ever All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Play - hopefully both big steps towards a national play strategy. playnation.uk/blog/2025/05... @eugeneminogue.bsky.social

Over on LinkedIn @eugeneminogue.bsky.social reminded me that it's 17 years (2008) since the last UK play strategy was launched, by Andy Burnham & Ed Balls (then Secs of State for culture and children, schools & families respectively). Surely time for a new one? (www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...)

Speakers: Marianne Mannello (Play Wales), Ruth Conway (Welsh Government ), Marguerite Hunter-Blair (playscotland.bsky.social), @eugeneminogue.bsky.social (Play England), Alan Herron (PlayBoard Northern Ireland), Adrian Voce (starlightuk.bsky.social).