Nursery World - New inquiry into play aims to give children back their childhoods

A ‘landmark’ inquiry into children’s play in the UK has been launched in a bid to give children back their childhoods, tackle childhood obesity and poor mental health.

A new Commission has been launched to increase the opportunities for children to play, PHOTO: Raising the Nation Play Commission

The Raising the Nation Play Commission has been launched by the founder of baby food brand Ella’s Kitchen, along with the Centre for Young Lives.

The 12-month Commission will hear from experts in children’s play and wellbeing, as well as parents, children and young people across the country, to produce a report making recommendations for post-election government policy.

Law firm Hogan Lovells is working with the Commission to help identify whether an effective and enforceable right to play exists in law in England and Wales and to identify opportunities to provide protections for play.

According to the Commission, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was ratified by the UK in 1991, but has never been directly incorporated into domestic law. Hogan Lovells will seek to establish the extent to which current law across the UK upholds the UNCRC, and where it fails to do so.

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