A new report claims that just 4 per cent of London’s 1.1 million children under 12 are able to play in natural spaces, and argues that experience of the outdoor environment should be part of everyday life for the capital’s children.
Despite good work being done by childcare organisations, early years settings, schools, city farms and parks, among others, and the fact that two-thirds of the capital is made up of green spaces or water, children’s experience of natural play has declined.
The research, commissioned by the London Sustainable Development Commission, which advises the Mayor on green issues, says that children’s emotional and physical wellbeing is being damaged by their lack of experience of the natural world.
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