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Ban on 'no ball games' signs suggested to get kids off screens
- A recent report from the commission investigating children's play highlights a 50% drop in outdoor activities among young people over the last generation and calls on the UK government to address this decline.
- The report followed a year-long study examining how widespread smartphone use and safety concerns, including hazards on streets and restrictive signs, limit children's play.
- It recommends a National Play Strategy supported by £125 million, safer streets, educational training on play benefits, and banning 'No Ball Games' signs to encourage outdoor activity.
- Statistics indicate that 89% of 12-year-olds in the UK own a smartphone, children spend twice as much time in front of screens compared to outdoor play, and 55% of parents report that their youngest child spends less time playing outside than they did during their own childhood.
- The report’s implications include improving children's health and wellbeing, reducing public service pressures, and requiring coordinated government action to restore play opportunities.
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Government told to ditch 'NO BALL GAMES' signs and ban phones in schools after screens ...
‘No Ball Games’ signs should be banned to encourage children to stop ‘doomscrolling’ on mobile phones as outdoor play has halved in a generation, the Government has been urged. A new inquiry calls for smartphones to be banned in schools as part of a national strategy to get young people outdoors and ‘disrupt the addictive grip of digital devices on children’s lives’. Time spent playing outside has declined by 50 per cent in a generation and child
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