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Over 1,200 leaders - ranging from GPs and health workers and headteachers to experts in the built environment, creative industries, physical activity and sports, and the early years, charity leaders, academics, and local government leaders - have joined the Raising the Nation Play Commission’s call for a new National Play Strategy for England.

In a series of open letters to the Secretaries of State for Culture, Media & Sport, Education, and Housing, Communities, and Local Government, the experts and practitioners express their strong support for the development of a national play strategy, recognising that play builds connection, wellbeing, confidence and resilience in children and that play is being squeezed out of many childhoods.  

This breadth of support for a new strategy reflects the urgent need felt across the spectrum of society for play to return to the heart of childhood and for leadership from Government to break down the barriers to play.

The following open letters of support for the Raising the Nation Play Commission’s call for a National Play Strategy have been written and signed
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[.download-play]LETTER FROM ACADEMICS[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM CREATIVES[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM HEALTH WORKERS[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM GPS[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM SPORTS SECTOR[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM EARLY YEARS WORKERS[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEADERS[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM BUILT ENVIRONMENT EXPERTS[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM SCHOOL LEADERS[.download-play][.download-play]LETTER FROM CHARITY LEADERS[.download-play]