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Children need to be allowed to take risks

Children need wilder places to play where they can take risks, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said this week ahead of its International Play Safety Conference today (14 June).

Recent reports have suggested that some parents deny their children thechance to play outside by themselves, in part because of fears they willget hurt. However, the RoSPA maintains that children gain lifelonglessons about risks and how to deal with them from the widerenvironment, and says that parents have to accept that their childrenmay suffer injuries while growing up.

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