{"id":18077,"date":"2025-06-05T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18077"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:27:09","slug":"it-all-starts-with-play-a-new-10-year-strategy-play-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/it-all-starts-with-play-a-new-10-year-strategy-play-england\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It All Starts with Play!&#8217; a new 10-year strategy \u2014 Play England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to \u201cmake play normal\u201d again, including a call for play to become a statutory duty, has been launched in Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>Charity Play England\u2019s 10-year strategy aims to reverse \u201cphone-based childhoods\u201d and wants to see planners redesigning cities for children, with the aim of getting them all playing again by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has also partnered with Tom Hays MP to form the first All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Play.<\/p>\n<p>The charity\u2019s report,\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.playengland.org.uk\/strategy\" rel=\"noopener\">It All Starts with Play!\u2019<\/a> adds to separate calls made in February by the Raising the Nation Play Commission for government to develop a national play strategy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playengland.org.uk\/strategy\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;It All Starts with Play!&#8217; \u2014 a new 10-year strategy \u2014 Play England<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to \u201cmake play normal\u201d again, including a call for play to become a statutory duty, has been launched in Westminster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:38:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18079,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077\/revisions\/18079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}