Exploring Play Sufficiency: A report on the webinar series January - May 2025

Russell, Wendy K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5028-6428, Barclay, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7940-5494 and Tawil, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6823-5293 (2025) Exploring Play Sufficiency: A report on the webinar series January - May 2025. Project Report. Ludicology, Wrexham. (In Press)

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Abstract

The Exploring Play Sufficiency webinar series ran from January to May 2025. It was funded by the University of Gloucestershire, curated by Dr Wendy Russell (Senior Research Fellow, UoG) and Mike Barclay and Ben Tawil (Ludicology), chaired by Wendy Russell, and supported by Play Wales. Wales was the first country to introduce a statutory Play Sufficiency Duty on local authorities, requiring them to assess and secure sufficient play opportunities for children as a part of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure in 2010. The idea was incorporated into the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment 17 on article 31, children’s right to play, which was published in 2013 following a campaign spearheaded by the International Play Association. GC17 recommended that governments legislate for children’s play using the principle of play sufficiency. Scotland introduced a Play Sufficiency Duty as a part of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019. At the time of writing, we do not know of other countries who have introduced a statutory Play Sufficiency Duty. There were four webinars in the series: 1.Introduction to the concept of play sufficiency, its history and some key principles 2.Examples of play sufficiency operating at national level 3.Examples of play sufficiency operating at local government level 4.Examples of play sufficiency operating at neighbourhood level The webinars were recorded and published on a dedicated Exploring Play Sufficiency YouTube channel.

Item Type:	Monograph (Project Report)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	play; play sufficiency; UNCRC; government
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human geography. Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education, Health and Sciences
Depositing User:	Wendy Russell
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2026 09:36
Last Modified:	14 Jan 2026 09:36
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15703

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