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changed how play services engage with members from Black and other ethnic minority groups
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supported organisations to use play to build community cohesion;
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offered playworkers creative activity ideas to help children explore their identities.
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Our research has culminated in publications available through various networks and organisations. The publications are used by play and childcare workers, students and service providers to better understand and improve services to children.
Examples
Neighbourhood Play Toolkit: Create, Organise, Sustain. National Children’s Bureau. CD format for development workers working with communities to create play spaces for children.
http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_National_
Children_s_Bureau_4_1132.html#a1904787673
Neighbourhood Play and Community Action – evaluation of action research project involving communities to create spaces for children’s play. Joseph Rowntree Foundation
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/1942.asp
Playing in Parallel increasing access to play provision for Black and other ethnic minority children. Available from London Play
www.londonplay.org.uk
equal in play? Research into employment patterns for Black and other ethnic minority staff in playwork in London.
www.londonplay.org.uk
The Power of Play: addressing community cohesion through play. Commissioned by Devon and Cornwall Housing Association, this guide supports those working with local communities to develop play opportunities for children.
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