What is Play Shaper

Play Shaper: Engaging Communities in Play is a professional development programme to help those who plan, design, build and manage public space understand the importance of children’s play and their role in enabling it within the public realm.

Play Shaper enables partnership working across local authorities and communities to create and maintain genuinely child-friendly public space.

Play Shaper is part of Play England’s Engaging Communities in Play programme which empowers local communities to take control of spaces where their children would like to play and promote the longterm sustainability of local play provision developed through the play pathfinder and playbuilder capital programme. Further details about the Engaging Communities in Play programme can be found here.

Play Shaper is funded by the Department for Education and is being delivered by Play England drawing on expert support from Playwork Partnerships and SkillsActive.

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Play Shaper online learning

Use the online learning environment after you have participated in a Play Shaper seminar. You can access learning materials, online discussions and an assessment quiz that accredits your continuing professional development.

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