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Play England calls for community action to help children missing out on outdoor play
Play England, backed by the Free Time Consortium, is re-launching the Love Outdoor Play Campaign, which is calling on everyone to Love Outdoor Play in whatever way they can. This could be as simple as taking five minutes to map their local play space on Play England's online map, signing up to regularly give money, time or skills to a local play project, or finding out about local - or national - volunteering opportunities to help more children play outside more often.

The Consortium is a group of 17 local and specialist organisations working together to increase children and young people's opportunities for play and recreation and has recently secured funding from the Cabinet Office to increase social action in support of children's play.

Children's happiness and well-being: Good Childhood Report 2012
The Children's Society has published its annual Good Childhood Report. Over 30,000 children and young people aged eight to 16 in the UK participated in the survey.
The Children's Society argues that there are six priorities needed for a happy childhood. A supplementary report,Promoting Positive Well-Being for Children, sets out how they should be adopted by government and others as priorities when devising new policies that impact on children's lives. Priorities include a `safe and suitable home environment andlocal area, and `the opportunities to take part in positive activitiesthat help them thrive'.

More play opportunities for children in Scotland
The Scottish Government has announced a £3 million investment that will mean increased free play opportunities for Scotland's children. The money will see an expansion of a selected number of Play Ranger models, which provide children with community based play opportunities and the Grounds For Learning initiative to improve school playgrounds.  It will also be used to support and develop staff across Scotland's play sector.