Fair Play
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Council which controls the Association work and policy and
you are part of a nationwide network of supporters of The
Child's Right to Play.
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We don't need a great deal to do our
work but the truth is, if you want us to be
effective, we have to ask you for a small
donation. (In fact, we've checked and we
actually have spent under £250 in the past year to
bring you: this site, 2xc weekly FP New, weekly
Research page, added Publications and Library items.
updated Facebook and Twitter at least 4x weekly,
made Freedom of Information requests, written to
Ministers, MPs, Councils etc - and reached many
groups and people. Imagine what we could do
with £2500! Volunteer effort = worth at
least £24,000 in the same period btw.)
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Fair Play exists to campaign for the Child's Right to Play, part of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the World's most adopted Treaty, the UK has signed it. Article 31 of the Convention states:
1. States Parties recognize 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. States 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.
2. States 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.
Fair
Play for Children says Britain
should incorporate the UN
Convention on the Rights of The Child into
our national law
The Convention in
full: Read
it HERE
HERE It's FREE
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Fair Play 50
Fifty years ago on 31st July 1972, a letter appeared in
'The Times' in the wake of a tragedy - two boys aged nine
and seven drowned playing in a tin bath in an East End
Canal in London .... for want of somewhere safe to play.
A LETTER TO 'The Times':
That event led Bishop Trevor Huddleston CR, then Bishop of Stepney, to pen an angry reproach in the press, he had known both boys and their families. It was not right, he insisted, that such a deficit should have led to their deaths.
With the same zeal that marked his defiance of apartheid in his native South Africa (from which he had been exiled for his views). Father Trevor launched this campaign, soon supported by The Duke of Edinburgh, it was, and is, known as Fair Play for Children.
Its mission is to achieve that safe, but challenging, play space for every child, as now stated in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
At Fair Play 50, how do we measure progress towards that aim? Though much has been achieved, overall can we say that there has been much movement? Yes, the community and voluntary sector in the UK has led the way, against huge odds mainly thrown in their way by the statutory sector. Oh, plenty of platitudes, 'nice thoughts', but when we examine the record of government at all levels, it has been a sad tale of non-achievement, even of hindrance.
To be blunt, always the first target for cuts especially by councils, often running counter to their statutory obligations, which goes all too often unchallenged from society. Fair Play has been and is running a campaign on this aspect, to get the law updated so that councils are held to account by the Government. YOU CAN HELP IN THIS!
MPs and Ministers, local government chiefs, councillors etc all KNOW the importance of Play, or they pay it enough lip service that, were that translated into action and resource, we'd by now have a Play-scape for Heaven on earth.
At this time, so much has been lost, trashed by cuts, our children and young people have been betrayed.
Not very celebratory? Well, what is stated does not diminish one jot the years of hard work and dedication people and organisations have contributed and continue to do so, Fair Play 50 is dedicated to making sure they have first call - just consider how much money would be saved, for example, if Councillors across the country gave up their allowances .... At a very rough guess, that would free up over £80 million a year. After all, they stand voluntarily for office, they can receive out-of-pocket expenses, but why should they also have an allowance on top of that just for being a councillor?
During the year ahead, FP50 will be aiming to secure legislative changes through dialogue with the Government. You can help by aiming letters at the your MPs to get their support. Keep in touch via this website
This is my thirty-first year as National Secretary of Fair Play for Children. I urge you to redouble the fight for a Fair Deal for Children's Play. Join Fair Play, DONATE, campaign with us!
Yours Playfully
Jan Cosgrove
National Secretary (Proud to be)
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" Fair Play gives excellent support around Play-work issues offering leaflets and policy documents as well as up to date news and information. Ideal for any organisation offering play activities with children. " cffc.co.uk
" A lively site with lots of information, including
downloadable guidelines such as Organising a
Playscheme and Child Protection in Playwork. This site
also includes excellent information on adventure
playgrounds. An excellent directory of play
organisations. "
playireland.ie
