WEDNESDAY AM
ROUND TABLE 11 - 15
TABLE 11
Risk benefit
'This table will look at what a risk benefit approach is and what is involved in order to implement it. It will examine the various strands including formal and dynamic assessments and how Lord Young’s review on H and Safety has impacted on this approach.
It will explore issues such as:
Is benefit measurable and how can this be achieved?
Why should risk assessment focus on benefits?
Explanation of a current case study on implementing a risk benefit approach within a Local Authority.'TABLE 12
Playworking and the spaces between
What is it that is so unique about a playwork response to the world - to children, to space, and to each other?
How do we communicate the significance of playworking in such an uncertain time for the field? How do we thrive in adversity?
What does playworking tell us about our own playfulness? How can we make this playfulness into creative relationship with others?
Drawing primarily on psycholudic thinking, this table is set up to explore the unique qualities that we bring to the playspace, individually and collectively, and how essential this process remains in the current economic climate. This table will be relevant to all individuals involved in a playful context - whether primarily in a face-to-face role, or involved at management level or an organisational context.
TABLE 13
Life after cuts
As a result of the government’s austerity measures, local authorities are being forced into making cuts in many services, particularly non-mandatory provision like playwork. This Round Table discussion entitled “Life after Cuts” will explore how voluntary sector agencies can not only survive but also learn to thrive once the current round of restructuring has settled down.
How will play organisations reshape and reform themselves, ensuring that they find a place of integrity where they are able to hold onto their playwork focus?
TABLE 14
Recognising bad playwork & what you can do about it.
I do not know one Adventure Playground that is one, at least one where the atmosphere is exciting to a vast age range 4/5 to 16/20 and beyond, where children and young people take genuine risks emotionally and physically and where playworkers are genuine in both their liking for the children and young people and supportive of them, even in the extreme situations that young people of both sexes get into.
I know some sites where part of that may be true
The Principles - most playworkers are aware of them now but put them into practice? Understand the message? Understand the words? Be allowed to put them into practice by Managers and the like? I don’t think so!
TABLE 15
Interventions
Following on from last years table 23 round table about intervention/interaction we shall be reflecting on what we came up with, looking deeper at intervention – is it just a human thing or does it happen in the animal world? Also looking at our motivation behind intervention, is this different in different situations/contexts? This is just the start who knows what it will lead to!
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in a better enviroment
