From the BBC:
Children's access to safe places to play should be treated as a serious political issue, say campaigners promoting the right to play.
Play England has issued a manifesto - including demands for a 20mph (32kph) speed limit in residential areas. A survey for the charity says 83% of adults want the government to promote policies to help children have more opportunities for outdoor play...
Having read the key words 'campaigners' and 'charity', I assumed that the BBC would then follow their usual 'write-up-of-fakecharity-press-release' template, peppered with rent-a-quotes from other fakecharities and concluding with a statement from a government spokesperson confirming that the government was going to 'do more'.
We'd then have to scurry off to the Charities Commission website to look up the 'charity', download the accounts and scroll through until we found the page which explains that they are largely government funded.
On this occasion, the BBC have saved us the hassle:
Play England, part of the National Children's Bureau and funded by the lottery...
PS, I am thoroughly in favour of there being more playgrounds, and my earliest political triumph was getting the local council to build a small playground at the end of my road, mainly by just getting on their nerves for two years, different topic. Be that as it may, children's playgrounds are very much a local issue and bugger all to do with the national government.
Big Green Bills
2 hours ago
4 comments:
Wonder if we could make the Albion Alliance a charity?
I wonder if people ever think, when they pay their £1 Lotto money, just what 'charitable causes' they are benefitting?
At the back of my huse, there have been 2 play areas over the last 15 years,both of them burnt down or otherwise destroyed by the "Children" .
They are now spending £175,000 on another one.......why this one will be any different i don't know.
I'll give it one year before the little darlings destroy this one.
"Right to play"?
Does that right extend to us adults and if not, why not?
When I were a lad... we'd clamber about in some farmer's haystack, play in the big pile of sand at some nearby construction site or wander freely about the local woods. Alternatively, we'd hang around the shops in the winter or swim in the local river in the summer... as long as we stayed out of trouble and out of sight, we could play almost anywhere. Anywhere but on the roads naturally.
From what I've seen, kids today simply aren't allowed to do these things. Too many open spaces have been built over or fenced off. The woods are full of paedophiles and the rivers with deadly currents. Instead, modern kids are encouraged to play in the roads... ???
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