APPENDIX 1
Bournemouth and Poole
Play Strategy 2010 - 2015
NO SPACE FOR
BOREDOM!
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FOREWORD
We are delighted to introduce this updated Play Strategy for improving play services and
opportunities for children and young people in Poole and Bournemouth. The Joint Play Strategy
was developed in 2007 in response to new government initiatives for play which were supported
by a Big Lottery Fund for Play programme. Government subsequently issued the National Play
Strategy in December 2008, and we have therefore taken this opportunity to review the Joint
Strategy to ensure the national strategy is reflected in the priorities for play in Bournemouth and
Poole.
Play is an essential part of every child’s life and vital to the processes of their development. The
strategy provides a platform to develop a shared understanding of the meaning of play and the
action plan outlines the means of achieving more and better places to play for young people and
children in Poole and Bournemouth.
Having been involved in community life for many years, we are very pleased that there continues
to be a growing recognition of the importance of play for the healthy emotional, physical and
mental development of children and young people.
We continue to consult with key play providers and children and young people themselves to
inform this Strategy and our action plan to support the development of play opportunities and
generally to raise the profile of play. The recent award of Playbuilder funding to improve play
areas in both boroughs will provide more exciting and challenging play for 8 - 13 year olds.
We will see increasing improvements in Bournemouth and Poole’s provision of places for
residents and visitors to meet and play. The strategy also aims to promote a cultural change in
the use of shared play space, building relationships between generations of trust and respect,
which will transform our communities and the use of their shared spaces.
Councillor Tony Woodcock
Play Champion for Poole
Portfolio Holder for Children and
Young People
Councillor Ted Taylor
Play Champion for Bournemouth
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OUR VISION FOR PLAY
Bournemouth and Poole’s joint vision for
all children and young people aged between 0 and 19 is:
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To provide more safe places to go.
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To offer more challenging activities to do.
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To provide the best, freely accessible, play opportunities and facilities
possible.
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To create play opportunities where children and young people can explore and
test boundaries balancing the need to take risks and stay safe from harm.
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To promote the rights of children and young people to play in and enjoy
community open spaces.
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To work with communities to promote a change in ideas enabling the shared
use of these spaces.
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To ensure children, young people and communities are involved in decisionmaking and evaluation of play provision.
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To develop supervised and non-supervised accessible play provision that
meets the needs of children and young people, (including children with
disabilities), helps them feel safer and promotes fun and learning.
A poem by local children and young people:
What is Play ?
Whatever the weather you can always
Have fun … but
Also be able to have
Time to yourself
It can be games inside or in the
Sunshine either
Playing with people or
Laughing with friends
As long as you play your
Youth never ends!
Shannon R and Shannon C
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1. Introduction
1.1
Definition of Play
‘Play is freely chosen, personally directed, self-motivated behaviour that actively engages a child
or young person. Where supervised, this involves adults supporting children’s natural ability to
play in a way that enables them to learn and develop as individuals and as members of the
community. It is recognised that people of all ages need to play and this will be very different for
each age group, but with the common thread of exploration and testing boundaries.’ 1
Bournemouth and Poole children and young people’s
definition of play
“Play is a process of active fun with a start, middle and an end and
the rules are set and agreed by the players.
Play is important because it’s about choosing what I want,
something to do for myself, not controlled, because there is freedom.
It’s a space for me and everyone to grow as people with an
opportunity to make friends, keep fit and spend my free time in a
positive and creative way”
1.2
The importance of PLAY
'Play is an essential part of every child's life and vital to their development. It is the way
children explore the world around them and develop and practise skills. It is essential for
physical, emotional and spiritual growth, for intellectual and educational development, and for
acquiring social and behavioural skills. Play is a generic term applied to a wide range of activities
and behaviours that are satisfying to the child, creative for the child and freely chosen by the
child. Children play on their own and with others. Their play may be boisterous and energetic or
quiet and contemplative, light-hearted or very serious.' 2
Our strategy aims to develop quality play environments that offer children and young people
opportunities to: engage with their natural surroundings, be sociable and solitary, create
imaginary worlds, test boundaries, construct and alter their surroundings, experience change and
continuity. Play equipment is neither necessary, nor sufficient, to create a quality play
environment.
2. Context
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The joint Bournemouth and Poole Play strategy was written in 2006 following consultation
with a range of agencies, voluntary and community organisations and children and young
people. It was prompted by the launch of the Big Lottery
Children’s Play Initiative programme which allocated funding to both councils to create,
improve and develop free local play spaces and opportunities. The first National Play
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B Hughes and F King, 1985 - adopted by the National Occupational Standards for Playwork
The New Charter for Children's Play' Children's Play Council.
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Strategy was published In December 2008, as promised in the Government’s 2007 Children’s
Plan.
The national play strategy’s vision for play:
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In every residential area there are a variety of supervised and unsupervised places for
play, free of charge;
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Local neighbourhoods are, and feel like, safe, interesting places to play;
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Routes to children’s play space are safe and accessible for all children and young people;
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Parks and open spaces are attractive and welcoming to children and young people, and
are well maintained and well used;
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Children and young people have a clear stake in public space and their play is accepted by
their neighbours;
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Children and young people play in a way that respects other people and property;
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Children and young people and their families take an active role in the development of
local play spaces; and
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Play spaces are attractive, welcoming, engaging and accessible for all local children and
young people, including disabled children, and children from minority groups in the
community.
The national play strategy is divided into five overarching action areas to improve play
opportunities for all children and our local priorities are defined within the same areas which are:
MORE PLACES
TO PLAY
SUPPORTING
PLAY
THROUGHOUT
CHILDHOOD,
CHILDFRIENDLY
COMMUNITIES
PLAYING
SAFELY
EMBEDDING
PLAY IN LOCAL
PRIORITIES.
The strategy indicates how we will meet the delivery of the Children Act 2004 duties on local
authorities, and their relevant partners, through the Children’s Trust, to co-operate to improve
well-being for local children in the area of developing outdoor play opportunities as identified in
the national play strategy. Statutory Guidance to Children’s Trusts states “the neighbourhoods in
which children live should provide a range of high-quality opportunities for play and recreation,
requiring a strategic approach to play across the local area, with the full involvement of children,
local communities and the third sector in decision-making.”
To ensure this joint strategy meets the needs of both Bournemouth and Poole, each authority
has identified the specfic actions required to meet its local priorities and detail is provided in the
individual action plans for both authorities. The strategy will be updated through the annual
review of both action plans.
3. National Play Indicator
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In April 2009, the Government introduced National Indicator 199 (NI 199) into the National
Indicator Set. NI 199 collects data about the satisfaction and enjoyment levels of children and
young people with their parks and play areas.
The Government intends to use the data from NI 199 to analyse how play contributes to other
Indicators within Local Authority Agreements and identify how integral play is to children and
communities. Authorities will be inspected against this indicator as part of their Comprehensive
Area Assessment.
Play cuts across different agendas and play can contribute to about 43 of the national indicators
used by government to measure local authority performance. These include:
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NI 1–6 (Stronger Communities) – Community cohesion, civic participation and satisfaction
with the local area
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NI 17, 22, 23 (Safer Communities) – Dealing with concerns about anti-social behaviour,
parents’ responsibility for their children and perceptions that people treat one another
with respect and dignity
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NI 48 (Safer Communities) – Children killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents
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NI 50, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58 (Children & Young People – Be Healthy) – Children’s
physical, emotional and behavioural health
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NI 116 (Proportion of children in poverty) – Good play provision is at the heart of the
safe, cohesive and prosperous communities where children can thrive and develop.
Play England has developed a set of local play indicators to measure the success of local play
provision. The local play indicators complement, but do not, replace NI 199 and they focus on:
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Children and young people’s use of spaces and facilities for play and informal recreation
Children and young people’s access to spaces and facilities for play and informal
recreation
Children and young people’s experience of spaces and facilities for play and informal
recreation
The quality of local spaces and facilities available for play and informal recreation.
Bournemouth and Poole local authorities will use Play England’s local play performance indicator
measurement tool to evaluate the success of play provision and use the information to improve
and develop play opportunities and spaces.
4. Children and Young People’s Plan
The Children Act 2004 also requires local authorities to set out what the Children’s Trust intends
to do to improve outcomes for local children, young people and families in a Children and Young
People’s Plan (CYPP). The benefits of play identified in this stragegy can make a major
contribution to each of the five ‘Every Child Matters’ outcomes:
Be healthy - reducing obesity, increasing active play and fitness
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Stay safe – safer routes to play, risk benefits of play, reducing bullying
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Enjoy and achieve – learning through play and having fun
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Make a positive contribution –reducing anti-social behaviour, participation of
children and young people in the design of play spaces and play areas, reducing
intergenerational conflict.
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Achieve economic well-being – increasing confidence and self-esteem, learning
life skills through play, increasing volunteering opporutnities
A range of data is regularly collected by both local authorities and used to inform their various
strategies. The data supported the identification of priorities in both Bournemouth and Poole’s
Children and Young People’s plans and clearly indicates that both boroughs have disadvantaged
wards or neighbourhoods. These areas also generally have higher levels of vulnerable children
and families and/or children with additional needs and are thus the priority areas for play
developments especially Playbuilder projects. (See Action Plans)
5. Partnership working
Play is vital for children’s health and wellbeing, and many different agencies and services benefit
from, and/or have an impact on children’s play. Play is integral to the provision and development
of these services, helping to meet a range of indicators and targets. Key partners include:
13-19 / Youth
Services
Planning &
Development
Disablity &
Inclusion
Highways &
Transport
Parks, Leisure
& Recreation
Play Providers
Police/Safer
Neighbourhood
Teams
PLAY
Health
Early Years &
Childcare
Schools &
Children’s
Services
Housing &
Regeneration
Voluntary &
Community
Sector
Play is a crosscutting policy issue (refer to item 3: National Play Indicator) and quality play
provides children with a wide range of opportunities, which:
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challenge them, physically, creatively, socially
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increase their self-esteem
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contribute to their learning and understanding of culture and the natural environment
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provide play places where their parents feel confident children are safe and enjoy
themselves
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provide opportunities for parents to better understand and support their children,
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contribute to social cohesion and friendship networks in communities
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offer voluntary work and employment opportunities to local young people and adults
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have good walking and cycling access, allowing children to reach them actively and
independently.
The strategy establishes cross cutting links to a range of initiatives and strategies to improve the
outcomes for children, young people and communities and this will improve the co-ordination of
the planning and delivery of play opportunities across all agencies and services in Bournemouth
and Poole. The action plans provide detail about the planning and delivery.
Engagement of all partners is essential to ensure that both space for play and opportunities for
play are included in strategies for planning, community safety and development, transport, public
health, cultural development, environment, leisure and open space development, youth services,
schools and social care.
Communities benefit from good play opportunities because children are involved in creative and
positive activities which can reduce anti-social behaviour and crime, young people learn social
and life skills and are prepared for working life and play facilities often provide a focal point for
the community which can help families to feel more supported. Increasing opportunities for
outdoor active play contribute to the public health agenda by reducing obesity levels in children,
increasing activity in families and promoting healthier life styles.
In England, the government has recently developed a public service agreement target to ‘halt the
year on year rise in obesity among children under 11 by 2010’ (HM Government, 2008).
Additionally, the Children’s Plan (DCSF, 2007) and the Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives Strategy
(DH and DCSF, 2008) set out a goal to reduce the proportion of overweight and obese children in
the population to 2000 levels by 2020.
Tackling obesity is now one of the national requirements for primary care trusts, in collaboration
with local authorities and other partners. Low physical activity levels and sedentary behaviours
are associated with obesity amongst children and may be both a cause and consequence of being
overweight
6. Bournemouth and Poole Play Policy Statements
6.1
Charter for Children’s Play
The Bournemouth and Poole Play Partnership has adopted the Charter for Children’s Play and
will:
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6.2
Raise awareness of the importance of play
Identify and support actions to improve children’s opportunities to play
Ensure cohesive strategic planning of children’s play services
Evaluate the quality and satisfaction levels with play spaces and provision
Review services that have an impact on children’s play
Inclusion
‘Inclusion is a process and all children are different. A play environment cannot be designed or
adapted to allow for every need. Rather, it is important to try to provide as much variety as
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possible in terms of access, challenge and sensory stimulation as well as responding to the
individual needs of the children who come and go.’3
Children and young people need to be able to play freely and free of charge in their
neighbourhoods and in local community spaces. Some play opportunities will be supervised and
may, or may not, have a charge.
It is important to provide good quality public open spaces as they are available to everyone and
provide essential spaces for play, especially within urban areas. They promote social inclusion,
generate community cohesion, and provide venues for social events.
It is also important to ensure that children and young people can get to play spaces actively and
independently by considering the routes they will take to get there and any barriers they will face
to reaching to play space by walking and cycling.
The strategy will ensure that local play provision provides choice and variety by:
6.3
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creating and developing good play provision that is inclusive and accessible
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ensuring disabled children and young people have access to stimulating and challenging
play opportunities primarily within integrated provision
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ensuring integrated decision making which values all children and young people
regardless of their needs
Play and Risk Management
In 2007, the Play Safety Forum - which builds a consensus on risk and safety issues for play
provision - informed the ‘Managing Risk in Play Provision: Implementation Guide’ published in
2008 by the DCSF with Play England. This document provides a tool for decision makers to make
better judgements about providing risk in play by using a risk benefit assessment process.
The Government’s Safeguarding Strategy ‘Staying Safe’ followed in 2008, which recognised that
‘wrapping children in cotton wool’ was having a negative impact on children’s play and their
freedom to play.
The Bournemouth and Poole Joint Play Partnership Forum endorses the principle of providing
play experiences that are safe but not risk adverse. The strategy embraces the viewpoint made
in the following statements from both the Play Safety Forum:4
“Children need and want to take risks when they play. Play provision aims to respond to these
needs and wishes by offering children stimulating, challenging environments for exploring and
developing their abilities. In doing this, play provision aims to manage the level of risk so that
children are not exposed to unacceptable risks of death or serious injury.”
and the Staying Safe: consultation document (DCSF 2007):5
‘We should not prevent children and young people from doing things they enjoy because of risks
that can be managed. Children and young people themselves recognise that ‘you can’t make
everything safe’ and that a balance is needed between risks and fun. Children recognise that
knowing about risks and how to manage them is an essential part of growing up … Through play,
children are able to learn about risks and use their own initiative. If children and young people
Kidsactive’s National Play Review consultation response
‘Managing risk in play provision: a position statement’ (2002) - Summary statement
5 Staying Safe: consultation document (DCSF 2007) - Key Principle
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are not allowed to explore and learn through playing and taking part in positive activities, they
will not learn how to judge risks and manage them for themselves’.
The Strategy aims to raise the awareness of the connection between play and risk and the risk
benefits of play that positively impact on children’s health and well being. The adoption and
promotion of a Managing Risk in Play Policy will create a framework for countering unreasonable
claims of negligence and improving play opportunities for children and young people. The
Bournemouth and Poole Joint Play Partnership Forum adopted a Managing Risk in Play Policy in
2010 and supports children setting their own challenges in play.
6.4
Resources
The development of good quality play spaces will not meet all the future play needs of children
and young people in the long term without continued funding to support further improvements
and maintainence. Supervised play provision, whether free or paid for, requires secure revenue
to meet staffing and running costs to ensure its sustainable and available.
The Joint Play Partnership will develop a strategic approach to influencing joint planning and
commissioning to ensure local play spaces are maintained, new play opportunities can be
delivered to meet changing needs and are sustainable.
Action plans will be regularly reviewed to ensure the play strategy is embedded and supports the
planning and commissioning cycle.
6.4.1 Section 106 Monies - Supplementary Planning Guidance
Bournemouth and Poole introduced Supplementary Planning Guidance for the Provision of Open
Space and Recreation Facilities in 1999. The Guidance refers to Section 106 of the Town and
Country Planning Act, which enables local planning authorities to enter into legal agreements
with planning applicants.
In this instance the agreement is entered into with applicants who seek to create new dwellings
in order that they contribute to the open space and play provision of the new development. We
will promote the use of S. 106 monies to improve and facilate play in areas of new development.
6.5
Playbuilder
The 2009 - 2011 Playbuilder capital funding from DCSF provides a key resource to improve and
increase the play opportunities for children aged 8 – 13 years. The Joint Play Partnership Forum
monitors and supports the programme to deliver 22 Playbuilder sites in each area by April 2011.
Bournemouth and Poole Councils have each been grant aided £1.1 million of Playbuilder national
funding to develop or improve 22 play areas across each borough between April 2009 and April
2011. Both Councils are also contributing extra funding for a number of Playbuilder sites with
developer contributions and Bournemouth is contributing some play capital funds.
In-house design will be used wherever possible, and funds will be spent on play as opposed to
decorative or safety features (fencing, paths, bins etc.) whenever possible to maximize the
benefits for children and young people. Bournemouth and Poole will embed the best practice
guidance from both Design for Play and Managing Risk in Play Provision in all our play
development.
Children, young people and families are being actively involved in the design of all Playbuilder
spaces in partnership with Barnardos, YMCA, Bournemouth and Poole Youth Services, Play
England, Sustrans, Community Police Officers and the Parks and Leisure Services.
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A list of sites can be found within the Bournemouth Playground Strategy 2009-14 which is
available on the web: www.bournemouth.gov.uk/play and sites for Poole on
www.leisureprojects.net
6.6
Quality Assurance Schemes
The Joint Play Partnership Forum will ensure that their local authorities offer support and guidance
to play providers to encourage them to access suitable and relevant Quality Assurance schemes. All
play providers will be encouraged to improve their service delivery to children through a process of
self-reflection and self-evaluation of their practice and to monitor their legal and statutory
compliance through their policies and procedures.
Play spaces are also subject to regular inspection and play value assessment. (see Open Spaces
Strategy) Bournemouth will assess the views of children, young people and other users of their
play spaces with Play England’s local play performance indicator tool looking at the areas of:
Access, Quality, Satisfaction and Participation.
6.7
Participation of Children, Young People and Local Communities
The Joint Play Partnership Forum values the contribution children and young people and local
communites make to ensuring play spaces are effective and well used, and will ensure that the
ongoing participation of children and young people is facilitated.
The local Play Steering Groups will ensure that children, young people and communities are
involved in decision making about the planning, design and management of play projects and the
creation of new play opportuntiies; and the evaluation of the Play Strategy.
6.8
Evaluation
The Joint Play Partnership Forum will be responsible for the delivery and development and
monitoring and review of the progress of this strategy and its action plans and will provide
regular progress reports, including an annual report, to both Children’s Trust arrangements to
ensure delivery within the context of their respective strategies and Local Strategic Partnerships.
The Joint Play Partnership Forum reviewed and updated its Terms of Reference and membership
requirements in 2010 to support this.
The Joint Play Partnership Forum will ensure that a range of robust consultation processes are
employed to gain feedback from children, young people and communities about the play
opportunities and developments in their area. This information will provide an evidence base for
the Corporate Annual Assessments for Bournemouth and Poole for NI199.
Each local authority also has a local Play Steering Group to progress and implement their
individual action plans. These will be reviewed and updated through feedback from the local play
performance indicator consultation.
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Appendix 1 – Key Documents and Strategies
In developing the Play Strategy the Joint Play Partnership Forum formally adopts:
 Children’s Charter for Play - Plan England
 Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – the Right to
Play
 Getting Serious About Play: A review of children’s play - Department of Culture
Media and Sport
 Managing risk in play provision: a position statement (2002) - Summary statement
 Staying Safe: consultation document, Department for Children, Schools and Families
2007 - Key Principle
 Design for Play: A guide to creating successful play spaces, Department for
Children, Schools and Families 2008
a) National Strategies
Childcare Act, 2006 in particular - Information Duty to provide information on activities
The Children Act, 1989 and 2004
The Disability Discrimination Act, 1995
Arts Council, England - agenda for the arts 2006-08
Be active, be healthy: a plan for getting the nation moving, Department of Health (2009)
Building brighter futures: next steps for the children’s workforce, Department for
Children, Schools and Families (2008)
Building Schools for the Future,
Change4Life, Department of Health (2008)
Child health promotion programme, (updated) Department of Health (2008)
Children’s Centres
Children’s Environment and Health Strategy, Health Protection Agency March 2009
Choosing Health, 2004
Cleaner, Safer, greener public spaces, DCLG
Connexions and the core offer
Embedding the Play Strategy, Department for Children, Schools and Families (2010)
Extended Schools Agenda, and the core offer
Every Child’s Future Matters, Sustainable Development Commission (2007)
Every Child Matters: change for children, Department for Education and Skills (2004)
Every Child Matters Outcomes Framework, Department for Children, Schools and Families
(2008)
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Getting serious about play – a review of children’s play, Department for Culture, Media
and Sport (2004)
Healthy Lives, brighter futures - The strategy for children and young people’s health
Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families
Healthy living blueprint for schools, Department for Education and Skills (2004)
Healthy weight, healthy lives: a cross-government strategy for England, HM
Government (2008)
Home Zones
National Healthy Schools Programme - promotes physical activity across the school day
including play
National Service Framework for Children,
Routes to play, Sustrans, (September 2009)
Shared Public Service Agreement between DCMS, DH and DfES to halt obesity among children
under 11 years
The children’s plan: building brighter futures, Department for Children, Schools and
Families (2007)
The Children’s Workforce Strategy,
The Play Strategy, Department for Children, Schools and Families (2008)
Time for play, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (2006)
Youth Matters, Department for Education and Skills (2005) - Positive Activities
Planning Policy Guidelines 17: Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation (PPG
17), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002 - protection of existing children’s play spaces
which are required to meet the needs of local communities
Supplementary Planning Guidance, (May 2004)
b) Local Strategies
Children and Young People’s Plan
Bournemouth and Poole Healthy Weight for children and young people Strategy
Community Safety Strategy
Corporate Plan
Local Strategic Plan
Joint Bournemouth and Poole Arts Plan
Open Spaces Strategy
Parks Strategy
PE and Schools Sports and Play Activities Strategy
Leisure Services Strategy
Poole 0-19 Participation Strategy
PPG17 Audit and Assessment.
Poole 13 -19yrs Strategy
Sustainable Community Strategy
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Appendix 2
BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE JOINT PLAY PARTNERSHIP FORUM
Terms of Reference 2010
1. Purpose:
1. To monitor the delivery and development of the Joint Bournemouth and Poole Play
Strategy and the Action Plans
2. To provide strategic input for the development and support of play projects across
Bournemouth and Poole, to ensure positive play opportunities and improved outcomes for
children and young people
3. To receive progress reports from the individual Play Steering groups in Bournemouth and
Poole.
4. Offer advice, comment, support and exchange information, that impacts on play activities.
5. Monitor the national Play indicator NI199, and other locally decided play indicators.
6. To provide a co-ordinated / integrated approach to play development and implementation
across both boroughs.
2. Membership:
Name
Role/ Organisation
Area
Cllr Ted Taylor
Play Champion
Bournemouth Borough Council
(BBC)
Cllr Tony Woodcock
Play Champion
Borough of Poole (BoP)
Kay Errington
Strategy Lead Early Years,
Childcare and Play
BBC
Vicky Wales
Head of Service, CYP
Integrated Services
BoP
Jackie Real
Lead Officer , Play
BBC
Annie Draper
Lead officer , Play
BoP
Hilary Moody
PCT
Bournemouth and Poole
Michael Rowland,
Leisure Services
BBC
Anthony Rogers
Leisure Services
BoP
Talbot Massey
Vol sector rep
Bournemouth
Alison Dalton
Vol Sector rep
Poole
Christine Robinson
Assistant Director, Barnardos
Joint Play Rangers
Christine White
Strategy Manager, 13- 19
BoP
CYP Integrated Services
Geraint Griffiths
Head of Youth Services
BBC
Lawrence Harrell
Transport
Transport
Bournemouth
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Elisabeth Roberts
Tim Hender
Bob Johnson
tbc
tbc
Carolyn Port
Sustrans
Dorset police
Participation Co-ordinator
Planning
Planning
Schools Rep
Schools Rep
Play England
Extended Services
Regional advisor
Bournemouth and Poole
BBC
Bournemouth
Poole
Bournemouth
Poole
Regional Programme Advisor
3. Lines of accountability:
Bournemouth
Children’s Trust Board
Poole
Children’s Trust
Bournemouth
Children’s Services
Overview and
Scrutiny Panel
Poole
Children’s Services
Overview and
Scrutiny Committee
Poole
Leisure Services
O&S committee
Bournemouth and
Poole Joint Play
Partnership Forum
Bournemouth Play
Steering Group
Poole Play
Strategy Group
Play Projects Bournemouth
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Play Projects Poole
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Big lottery :
Play Rangers
Butchers Coppice
Playbuilder
Playful Ideas: Media Van
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Big lottery
Play Rangers
Fun Days
Playbuilder
Playful Ideas: Media Van
4. Frequency and Management of Meetings
The Joint Play Partnership meets on a quarterly basis, hosted alternately by each Borough and
chaired by the Play Champion for the host borough.
The Lead Officers for Play have alternate responsibility for the administration of the meeting in
their area including the organisation of the venue, setting the agenda, note taking and
distribution of information.
Each borough will contribute equally to the cost of any joint events or publicity to promote the
Joint Play Strategy subject to the agreement of the Joint Play Partnership Forum.
Updated: March 2010
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Potential contribution of play indicators to National Indicator Set (Play England)
The table below suggests ways in which play provision can support the achievement of local authority indicators in the National Indicator Set. If local
authorities are choosing any of the national indicators listed in the left column below for their local area agreements, play services may be able to
argue the case for play as contributing to these.
NI
National Indicator
NI 199
Question 15 in the TellUS survey
asking what children think about
their parks and play areas
Per cent of people who feel that they
belong to their neighourhood
PSA 21
Civic participation in the local area
PSA 15
NI 2
NI 3
Local Play Indicators (Play
England)
Play participation and satisfaction
Play participation
Rationale for using the local
play indicators
Children and young people’;s
satisfaction with parks and play
areas
Children playing out and happy
with the neighourhood feel they
belong
Children playin gout are active
members of the community
Other possible measures
Level of childrens engagement in
planning, design and delivery of
play opportunities. Play strategy
consultations etc.
NI 5
Overall/general satisfaction with local Play satisfaction
area CLG DSO
Children are happy with play
areas
NI 17
Perceptions of anti-social behaviour
PSA 23
Play satisfaction
NI 22
Perceptions of parents taking
responsibility for the behaviour of
their children in the area HO DSO
Perceptions that people in the area
treat one another with respect and
dignity HO DSO
Play participation
Understanding of local concerns
about anti-social behaviour and
crime by the lcoal council and police
HO DSO
Children killed or seriously injured in
Play participation and satisfaction
Take young people ‘hanging out’
Contribution of more and better
off list of definitions of anti-social places to play could reduce
behaviour in British Crime survey these
Parents acknowledging
importance of freedom and
trusting their children
Children playing out and happy
with the neighbourhood, feel they
are respected and if they are
happy are probably respecting
others
Children and young people with
enough things to do and places to
go
NI 23
NI 27
NI 48
Play participation and satisfaction
Play participation
Fewer children injured whilst
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road traffic accidents DfT DSO
more are playing out
NI 50
Emotional health of children
NI 54
Services for disabled children PSA 12
Access to play provision and
quality of provision
NI 55
and 56
Obesity among oprimary schoola ge
children in recpetion year DCSF DSO
Obesity among primary school age
children in year 6 DCSF DSO
Children and young people’s
participation in high-quality PE and
sport DCSF DSO
Play participation
Link to more and better play
opportunities, play references in
NICE guidance, Healthy Weight,
Healthy Lives
Play provision assessed with
quality tool includes access for
disabled children e.g. use of Kids
Inclusion Framewok / Strategy
Playing out is a good way to
increase physical activity.
Play participation
Include informal sport and active
play
Emotional and behavioural health of
children in care DCSF DSO
Health Care standard includes play
Hard to find one to link to as all
about achievement and nothing
re play – should include play
satisfaction at a minimum and
possibly participation as well
Should be good play
opportunities in extended schools
NI 57
NI 58
Enjoy and achieve
NI 88
Number of extended schools DCSF
DSO
Play satisfaction
NI 109
Number of Sure Start Children
Centres DCSF DSO
Young people’s particpation in
positive activities PSA 14
Fair treatment by local services
PSA 15
Play access and satsifaction
Number of affordable homes
delivered (Gross) PSA 20
Local authority tenants’ satisfaction
Access to playable space
NI 110
NI 140
NI 155
NI 160
Play participation
Access to playable space
Play satisfaction and participation
16
Should be good play
opportunities in children’s centres
Play and informal recreation are
positive activities
Children and young people should
have good access to playable
spaces in the same way as to
other services
Important in the development of
new homes
Essential parts of tenants
/ playable spaces / home zones
Link to more and better play
opportunities, play references in
NICE guidance, Healthy Weight,
Healthy Lives
Children and young people’s
participation in high-quality PE
and sport – contribution of
informal sport and active play
Contribution of after and out of
school provision
Play and EYFS inspection results,
references in Fair Play
Contribution of more and better
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NI 175
NI 179
NI 195
NI 197
NI 198
with landlord services CLG DSO
Access to services and facilities by
public transport, walking and cycling
DfT DSO
Value for money – total net value of
outgoing cash-releasing value for
money gaines that have impacted
since the start of the 2008 – 09
financial year
Improved street and environmental
cleanliness (levels of graffiti, litter,
detritus and fly posting) DEFRA DSO
Improved local biodiversity –
proportion of l ocal sites where
positive conservation management
has been or is being implemented
Children travelling to school – mode
of travel usually used DfT DSO
satisfaction
play areas
Play participation and access
Better play equipment and
features procurement, reduction
in maintenance costs
Play satisfaction
Children more satisfied if streets
cleaner and well kept
Contribution of more and better
play areas
Contribution of natural features
in play areas/playable space
Play participation
Playing out more linked to active
travel (Mackett’s work)
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Contribution of playable space
on routes to and from school
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