Poverty and Play

I attended a meeting Tuesday in the Healthy Living Centre in Winch Wen - when I eventually found it - to talk about play stategies and how poverty affects play (Bridging the Policy Gap). When we think of poverty we just think of money usually but it means not having enough of - and our 'bridging the policy gap' group is looking at the play stategy to see what works and what is missing - we are doing a lot of hard work and will be linking with others in Newham and Glasgow as its part of an EU stategy to eradicate child poverty - so I hope what we contribute will have good outcomes for the future of our children. I have been asked to find out if any other voluntary sector groups or agencies wish to be a part of the review - and this would benefit anyone who is involved with 'play or youth work' etc - please get in touch with Karen.grunhut@swansea.gov.uk Some people who attended the launch were under the impression this was just about different types of poverty - but now this group is only concentrating on the PLAY STRTERGY. Please help if you can.