Examples of Play Sufficiency

Authors: Various
Date: October 2024

Play Wales has worked with local authorities and their partners to compile examples of actions taken locally to support children’s play, as part of play sufficiency work. Each example aims to show the unique contexts, processes and people involved in the project. They may offer adaptable ideas for those working to support children’s play.

The examples are presented as ‘report cards’, which are inspired by play sufficiency research undertaken by Wendy Russell, Mike Barclay, Ben Tawil and Charlotte Derry. In this research, the 26 report cards are examples of actions to support children’s play. The report cards can be found in the 2020 report, Making it possible to do Play Sufficiency: Exploring the conditions that support local authorities to secure sufficient opportunities for children in Wales to play executive summary.

The eight examples are:

• Community Play Boxes
• Families First Holiday Club
• Family Play in the Park sessions
• Play Activity Pods
• Playful families toolkit
• Shared values
• Stay and play pilot project
• Toddle Waddles