Networking for child-friendly environments

Playful Planet is a new community interest company* dedicated to advocacy for children’s rights in the built environment: in particular, their right to play, to be mobile, to access space and to fully participate in the life and culture of their communities.Through events, publications, consultancy work, and direct influencing activity, we aim to advance the wellbeing, rights, and interests of children and young people as full stakeholders in a shared public realm.Playful Planet manages the activities of theEuropean Network for Child Friendly Cities, an international advocacy group founded in 2001.*Registration pending

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<H4>Children and the built environment</H4>
<P>There is a growing awareness of the need for the built environment, and public infrastructure, to be more responsive to the needs of children and young people in the modern world.</P>
<P>From local activism, community development, innovative practice, and cutting-edge research, the UK has been among the developed world's leading centres of the child-friendly city movement.</P>
<H4>Challenges</H4>
<P>Yet, more than 20 years after the UN Habitat conferences, which underlined the need for urbanism to embrace children's rights, the economic and policy framework for child-friendly planning, design and development remains challenging. Progress seems slow. Many would say there remain more obstacles than opportunities to create a built environment that truly recognises and protects the rights and wellbeing of our youngest citizens.</P>
<H4>Networking and advocacy</H4>
<P>This meeting is to consider these challenges, share experiences of how they can be overcome, and discuss how the informal network of advocates for child-friendly environments in the UK might work together for positive change. This is our theme; our agenda will be shaped by those who attend.</P>
<P>The idea for this event – and perhaps a regular cycle of such meetings – arose from a spontaneous gathering in Leeds, initiated by <A HREF="https://thedeveloper.live/home" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the Developer</A> via Twitter, and co-organised with Playful Anywhere. It is supported by the <A HREF="https://playfulplanet.org.uk/child/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">European Network for Child Friendly Cities</A>.</P>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.playfulanywhere.fun" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><IMG SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/49326182/playfulanywherelogoresized.jpg"></IMG></A><A HREF="http://www.playfulanywhere.fun" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PlayfulAnywhere.fun </A>is a community interest company, which catalyses creative conversations with people of all backgrounds, in places across the North. We care about place-making, community development and engaging people where they are at.</P>
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<P><A HREF="http://assemblybd.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Assembly Bradford</A> is a co-working and event space to designed to 'make things and people meet' in the heart of Bradford.</P>

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