Advocating Play - An Advocacy Toolkit
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PlayBoard invite you to be an advocate for play! We ask you to join us on our crusade of championing the ‘Child’s Right to Play’ (UNCRC, 1989).
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989): The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified by the UK government in 1991. PlayBoard is committed to achieving the full implementation of this right, to ensure that all children and young people in Northern Ireland have access to play and leisure opportunities. Article 31 states that: 1. Parties recognise the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts. 2. Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural artistic recreational and leisure activity. |
Play is everyone’s responsibility and providing and promoting a strategic approach to play can only be achieved successfully if everyone
plays their part.
How will you ensure you play your role in developing an understanding and positive attitudes to play?
PlayBoard’s new Play Advocacy Toolkit has been designed to support those with an interest and desire to advocate for children and young people and can be used by a diverse range of advocates; e.g. childcare settings, schools, youth clubs, and by play workers, teachers, planners, community workers, parents – whoever wants to advocate for play!
Copies of the Toolkit will be available to Download here very soon, after the Launch
