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Understand the role of play and understand children’s rights in relation to play

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‘Play deprivation: impact, consequences and the potential of playwork’ from Play Wales

Play Deprivation is the name given to the notion that not playing may deprive children of experiences that are regarded as developmentally essential and result in those affected being both biologically and socially disabled.

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Click to read the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s ‘General Comment Number 7’ (2005) on ‘Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood’.
Click to read 'Playing to learn: A guide to child-led play and its importance for thinking and learning' by the education union ATL about the importance of play to child development.

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