Play is crucial to children’s healthy development and happiness. Evidence demonstrates that one of the best ways for children to stay both physically and mentally healthy is through access to a variety of unstructured play experiences.
This briefing for health improvement specialists, primary care teams and healthy schools coordinators, provides information on why play is crucial to children's health and explores possibilities for joint working between the health and play sectors.
Published February 2008.
Download Play and health: making the links [204KB PDF]
Play England is part of NCB and is supported by the Big Lottery Fund
