Play Sufficiency Audit Meeting

In Powys We Want Every Child To Play Every Day

Yvonne Owen Newns - PAVO's Children & Young People's Facilitator would like to invite you to a Play Sufficiency Audit Meeting to be held in early September.

Where: PAVO offices Llandrindod Wells

When: Wednesday 9th September 2015  

Time: 3pm to 5pm

Spaces are limited so please comfirm you attendance by

contacting annie.watkins@pavo.org.uk by Tuesday 1st September 2015.

We want every child to play every day in Powys. To work towards this the Powys play Strategy looks at how children & young people have:

• The TIME to play
• The SPACE to play
• Adults, communities, organisations who foster a positive ATTITUDE towards children & young people playing and hanging out.

This Strategy implements the United Nations Charter on the Rights of the Child Article 31: children have the right to access paly, leisure, recreation & cultural activities. The strategy works towards Welsh Government’s policy of providing sufficient paly opportunities for children in Wales.

Purpose & Methodology

PAVO is coordinating the audit of Play Sufficiency across Powys to assess the opportunities children/young people have to access play. Welsh Government want to be able to demonstrate that we are supporting children & young people to access their rights. To do this we are using the following methods to find out more:

• Focus groups with parents, maringalised groups, professionals
• Online survey to children, young people, parents/carers
• Semi-structure interviews with lead professionals associated with policy areas indentified in the paly sufficiency statutory guidance
• Mapping & Data Collection: making use of data available from CYPP, JNSA, Education, Planning, FIS, Leisure & Recreation etc

Next Steps

Once the data and evidence has been collected this will be further analysised to highlight successes and barriers that children/young people face.

Welsh Government requires the Audit Report on Providing Sufficient Play Opportunities to be submitted by 31^st March 2016. This will also provide Powys with an action plan to work towards improving play opportunities for children/ young people across the County over the next 3 years.