The Raising the Nation Play Commission, a year-long independent inquiry into why play is critical to the wellbeing of children published its final report, “Everything to Play For: A Plan to Ensure Every Child in England Can Play” on Wednesday 11th June 2025.
The Commission was launched in June 2024 and chaired by entrepreneur and campaigner Paul Lindley OBE - founder of Ella’s Kitchen, the UK’s biggest baby food business – and worked in partnership with the Centre for Young Lives.
Our final report puts forward a positive vision of a country where children’s play is at the heart of government strategy and our public spaces, and where it is embedded across education, health, local government and beyond. It argues for the restoration of play into early learning and our schools, for communities where safe parks, playgrounds, streets, and housing developments are alive with the shouts and laughter of children, and for a broader, cultural shift in attitudes towards risk, childhood independence, and play.
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