Explore Play Wales
Here is a summary of the latest play related articles, blogs and videos to be published online.
Play for children in temporary accommodation project
Marianne Mannello, Public Health Network Cymru E-bulletin (October 2025)
Children should have a right to play in the streets, alleys, pavements and car parks of their neighbourhoods
Alison Stenning, The Conversation
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
Phoebe Weston, Guardian (the age of extinction)
Why Playing is Good for You, According to Science
Cas Holman, TIME
Cardiff contributes to national conversation on play at the Play Wales Conference 2025
Child Friendly Cardiff
Parental tolerance of risk and associations to adventurous play in British preschool aged children
Kateryna Tyzhuk, Helen F. Dodd and Kathryn R. Hesketh, Preventive Medicine Reports (volume 59, November 2025)
Managing Risky Play: The Benefit-Risk Approach
Play Scotland
Children, young people and the built environment
Sarah Lewis and Louise Whitley, House of Commons Library research briefing