Bath and North East Somerset Play Strategy
2006-2012
Having the freedom to play is a child’s basic right. However
there are a myriad of reasons why children and young people do not
access free play or feel that they can play freely in their local
community.
In Bath and North East Somerset the development of our Play
Policy in 1999 put play in the strategic policy framework of the
Council and supported the work of the Strategic Development Officer
for Play. This Play Strategy clearly links the myriad of
initiatives that the Council is involved in relating to children
and young people including housing, planning, education, green
space development and road safety. It has been developed in
consultation with our voluntary sector partners, key departments
and agencies who deliver children and young peoples services in
Bath and North East Somerset and with children and young people.
Chapter four of the Strategy shows the Action Plan for play
development over the next six years.
The Play Strategy heralds the challenges that we have ahead to
increase children and young peoples access to free play provision
and it will inform bids to the BIG Lottery for Play and a range of
other initiatives.
Alice McColl, Strategic Development Officer for Play, Bath and
North East Somerset,
Early Years Childcare and Play Team.
Play Strategy - Appendices
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Appendix 1 - Bath and North East Somerset Play Policy
1999
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Appendix 2 – Play Policy Review 2005 - Summary of
Recommendations
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Appendix 3 - How Play Provision in Bath and North East
Somerset meets the outcomes outlined in Every Child
Matters
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Appendix 4 - Delivery Plan for “Promoting High Quality
Play, Leisure and Sport”
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Appendix 5 Monitoring Report – Progress with
Delivery Plan for Children and Young Peoples Plan
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Appendix 6 - Strategy for Children and Young People’s
Participation in Bath and North East Somerset July 2005
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Appendix 7 – Play Partnership Terms of Reference June 2006
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Appendix 8 - How the Play Strategy will to build on Children’s
Fund Work
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Appendix 9a – Map showing density of children under 12 years in
Bath and North East Somerset. 2006
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Appendix 9b - Map showing indices of Income Deprivation
affecting children in Bath and North East Somerset
2006
- Appendix 10a - Map showing top quartile vulnerable areas
2006 in Keynsham and Radstock - See PDF under Related Documents
(copy available on request)
- Appendix 10b – Map showing top quartile vulnerable areas 2006
in Bath City - See PDF under Related Documents (copy available on
request)
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Appendix 11 - Proposed standards for informal green
space. Green Space Strategy 2005
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Appendix 12 - Record of meetings and visits by SDOP since
June 2006
- Appendix 13a – Map showing free play provision in Bath and
North Somerset September 2006 - See PDF under Related
Documents
- Appendix 13b – Map showing playareas in Norton Radstock - See
PDF under Related Documents
- Appendix 13c – Map showing play areas in Keynsham - See PDF
under Related Documents
- Appendix 13d – Map showing play areas in Bath - See PDF under
Related Documents
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Appendix 14 – Profile of children within Bath and North East
Somerset
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Appendix 15 Risk and Safety: Managing risk in play
provision: a position statement’
