Bringing together authors from a range of academic disciplines and research backgrounds – united as standard-bearers for the child's right to play – and set against a backdrop evoking play's critical essence, this book documents the rise and fall of an explosive period of political interest in play in the UK.

Has the withdrawal of so much state funding damaged the playwork profession forever? Has the battle for recognition of the significance of play in child development been lost? Why is children's happiness always so low on the agendas of our politicians? The invaluable contributions in this book identify the lessons learned, and the opportunities that may be available to those determined to maintain the struggle for a greater recognition of the importance of children's play in an era defined by the oppressive politics of austerity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Play.

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Notes on Contributors
Editorial
Chapter 1: The state of playwork
Chapter 2: Memories of and reflections on play
Seminar Papers: Best of times to worst of times? Appraising the changing landscape of play in the UK
Chapter 3: Complex geographies of play provision dis/investment across the UK
Chapter 4: Play in the good times: the (English) inside story
Chapter 5: The Big Lottery Fund’s Children’s Play Programme: a missed opportunity to gather the evidence?
Chapter 6: Slip sliding away: a case study of the impact of public sector cuts on some of the services supporting children’s play opportunities in the city of Sheffield in the north of England
Chapter 7: Playwork practitioners’ perceptions of the impact on play of austerity in the UK: comparing experiences in Scotland and SW England
Chapter 8: Supporting healthy street play on a budget: a winner from every perspective
Chapter 9: Opportunities for free play
Chapter 10: Promoting playfulness in publicly initiated scientific research: for and beyond times of crisis
Chapter 11: ‘Strategic playwork’: a possibility that is neither ‘intervention playwork’ nor ‘environmental playwork’
Chapter 12: Geographies for play in austere times
Chapter 13: Sharing playwork identities: research across the UK’s field of playwork
Chapter 14: Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner
Chapter 15:The Big Swing: reflections on the first 10 years of an adventure playground
Chapter 16: Books worth (re)reading: Adventure Playgrounds, by Jack Lambert and Jenny Pearson
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