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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · Jul 28

We also need to make our streets and housing estates safe and welcoming for so the next generation of Lionesses can kick a ball about (not to mention all the other reasons to enable doorstep play!) #MoreBallGames #StartWithPlay

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Jul 25

Lots of posts with comments about the proposed two-hour screen limit/curfew for children and young people are popping up in my timeline, all saying the same thing:

Invest in places for C&YP to play and hang out in.

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are so delighted.

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is wonderful news! Exactly what we've been wanting to happen. Enormous gratitude to @edwardlamb.bsky.social and Wirral Council for leading the way for other councils to follow!!

Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · Jul 23

On Monday night at Wirral Council, we unanimously passed my @wirralgreenparty.bsky.social motion to support more welcoming, child-friendly neighbourhoods and a proper strategy to promote outdoor play. 🌱🚲🏃‍♀️

A small step — but a meaningful one. Here’s a short thread. 🧵👇

Two kids move along a quiet street in the sun. One on a scoot, one cycling

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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · Jul 8

If you live in Dublin and would like to organise a Play Street for your street / area for World Car Free Day, you can read all about the UK experience of how to do it informally here via @playingout.bsky.social: playingout.net/play-streets...

#d7playstreets

MAKE
PLAY HAPPEN THIS SUMMER
JOIN THE INITIATIVE
ORGANISE A PLAY STREET WHERE YOU LIVE

WHO?
D7 PLAY STREETS
initiative is about giving children some of the experience of unstructured street play that we enjoyed
WHAT?
PLAY STREETS
are simple community- led opportunities for children to play freely and safely on the streets where they live.
WHY?
IRELAND
has the lowest rate of children’s independent mobility in Europe – it’s time we reclaim our streets for play!

If you want to see how it works or need support, come join us at any play street this June.
Email: d7playstreets@gmail.com and we can let you know if there are others happening in your area

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · Jul 23

Children are an easy target apparently

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Jul 9

Children have as much right to their streets as drivers. There is no legal basis for them being shoed off streets. And I have no doubt that cars - moving and parked - cause a nuisance for children.

This is extraordinarily depressing from Manchester City Council.

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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · Jul 9

Grim messaging from Manchester City Council 👀

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · Jul 23

Any organisation that exists to support children cannot remain silent in the face of this genocide. Our Government must end its complicity and take meaningful action against Israel *right now*. #StopKillingChildren

War Child UK @warchilduk.bsky.social · Jul 23

"We're still in a situation where a classroom full of children are dying every day...We need to see more tangible action from governments to end this" - Hratche Koundarjian, our Head of Communications and Campaigns, spoke to @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social outside Westminster yesterday.

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · Jun 21

Last weekend in Bristol, children on bikes took over their city centre! They were seen and heard. They had a blast.

But the aim of #KidicalMass is also serious. This is not the everyday norm. Children across the UK need #SafeStreetsNow.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLtA...

Bristol Kidical Mass 2025 (with EN subtitles)

YouTube video by Bristol Cycling

www.youtube.com

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Jun 11

Off to the launch of the Play Commission final report this morning - will be absorbing the report and its recommendations on the train, but pleased to see strong arguments for child-friendly neighbourhoods.

@playingout.bsky.social

4. Neighbourhoods are designed and adapted to be child-friendly. This includes:
a. Tackling safety concerns - particularly traffic and crime
- through a new strategy to make streets safe for play which prioritises children's independent mobility.

b. A national ban on 'No Ball Games' signs.
c. A commitment to ensure all families live within a safe 10-minute walk of a park or green space.
d. Local authorities using creative solutions like play rangers, mobile play stations, and toy libraries to bring play to more communities, and opening school playgrounds for use outside of school hours.

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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · Jun 11

Today is International Day of Play.

As Ingrid Skeels - @playingout.bsky.social - says below: "we have to make the outside world a place children can play in real life."

Instead of debating road "closures", we should be *opening* our streets so more children can play on the streets where they live.

road "open" sign from Playing Out showing icons of children playing on street

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · Jun 13

www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

'Kidical Mass is a joyous celebration and a reminder of what's possible'

Bristol's Kidical Mass bike ride takes place on Saturday morning

www.bristol247.com

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Jun 7

I always saying opening a street for play is magical, often not spectacular, but the ordinary magic that Stuart Lester talks about. No wonder those who try it want more.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Residents of street where cars banned for kids to play say 'make it permanent'

The road, near a city primary school, was temporarily closed down to all forms of traffic

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · May 19

Ladies Mile is a totally unnecessary road cutting across Bristol’s biggest public greenspace - The Downs - making it unsafe for kids. It was closed to cars for the day yesterday and what a change! Let’s make this permanent. @edplowden.bsky.social @robbryher.bsky.social @bristol247.bsky.social

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Alice Ferguson @aliceferguson.bsky.social · May 19

On my way into work this morning I saw this, on a rare “home zone” in Bristol, where cars do not have priority.

Imagine the time and energy this must have taken! Imagine the sense of belonging, of “my space, my street, my community”. Imagine if all children had this. @playingout.bsky.social

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · May 8

And 👆👆 @edplowden.bsky.social @david-on-a-bike.bsky.social

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · May 8

Also 👆👆
@carladenyer.bsky.social @ellief.bsky.social @cllremmaedwards.bsky.social @robbryher.bsky.social @zoebanksgross.bsky.social @hwschoolstreet.bsky.social

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · May 8

Please share!
@bristol247.bsky.social @bristolcycling.bsky.social @tristancorkpost.bsky.social @sustrans.bsky.social @kinderaufsrad.bsky.social

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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · May 8

Bristol folk - join us for #KidicalMass 2025! A family-friendly city-centre protest ride calling for safer streets for children and everyone. Come on bikes, scooters, skateboards or roller-skates! Castle Park bandstand from 11am, Saturday 14th June. www.facebook.com/events/10929...