Advocating Play
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Advocating Play
As the lead agency for children and young people’s play in Northern Ireland, PlayBoard has a long history of advocating and championing the Child’s Right to Play.
Play and the opportunities for it have changed over recent years. There are many contributing factors for this including the volume of traffic on our roads, the prevalence of car parking space, multiple stories in the media about childhood abduction, child perpetrated crime and anti-social behaviour.
PlayBoard’s Atlantic Philanthropic funded Project has three main outcomes:
- Children and young people viewed as strong, competent, social actors who effectively participate in all decisions which affect their social, emotional, physical, intellectual, creative and cultural development.
- Strengthening the capacity and ability of PlayBoard membership, local communities and communities of interest to articulate their needs and rights.
- Greater strategic understanding and recognition of the importance of children and young peoples right to play across social policy.
Using a practice informs research perspective two Play Development Officers are currently working with local communities in North Belfast aimed at empowering and assisting children, young people and local communities to better articulate their play needs and rights. Click on the side menu for more information.
For more information on PlayBoard’s advocacy work see the Advocacy Section.
