There was no doubt in my mind about the power of play or the importance of playwork at the end of a talk given by Fraser Brown at the South West Play Celebration in Chippenham last month. The talk was on how therapeutic playwork dramatically changed the lives of abandoned children in Romania.
Romania was a communist country until Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in 1989. The communist regime banned women from using contraception until they had given birth to five children. Subsequently, children were born into families who were too poor to raise them, and many were abandoned for the state to look after.
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