Children play at the adventure playground at The Parish School in the Spring Branch area of Houston. The term adventure playground might be an unfamiliar one for most Americans, considering that there ...

Unlike chiropody, the playwork profession is still finding its feet. It took the publication of The Principles and Practice of Chiropody in 1960 to raise chiropody's status within the medical ...

This second edition of Bob Hughes's Evolutionary Playwork is an outstanding book that should be read carefully by anyone who's interested in play, and then read again and again. Its fourteen chapters, ...

More than nine out of 10 playwork practitioners think a new membership body is needed for the profession in the UK, according to a poll. The survey also found that 96 per cent of practitioners said ...

Last month saw the launch of five new centres for playwork training in England, bringing the total to nine - one in each region. This is the latest step in a national programme implemented by SPRITO, ...

Some food for thought in your professional career. PLAYWORK: A GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE (second edition). By Paul Bonel and Jennie Lindon (Stanley Thornes, 14.00, 01242 267271). PLAYWORK: A GUIDE TO ...