Welcome to Playful Planet!

We are a new community interest company* dedicated to advocacy for children’s rights in the built environment: in particular, their right to play, to be mobile, to access space and to fully participate in the life and culture of their communities.

OUR MISSION

Our aim is to support government, local authorities and other public bodies to develop and adopt the policies and plans that will better enable children’s enjoyment of these rights within a more child-friendly public realm.

What we do

We do this through events, publications, consultancy work, research, policy development, and direct influencing activity. We work with practitioners, policy-makers, academics, parent-carers, public officials and children and young people themselves, to advance the wellbeing, rights and interests of children – as full stakeholders in public space, and full participants in the wider public realm.

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Who we are

Adrian Voce is the founder and director of Playful Planet. Adrian is a playworker, writer, consultant, and advocate for children's right to play. He is currently the interim head of policy and public affairs at Starlight Children’s Foundation and an associate board member of Playing Out.

As founding director of Play England, Adrian was the main architect of the £235m Play Strategy (2008-11), advising the UK government, drafting and commissioning guidance documents and directing the support services for local authorities.

Previously, Adrian was the first director of the regional charity, London Play (1998) before becoming chair and then director of the national Children’s Play Council in 2004. Adrian has worked in children’s play for more than 40 years. He is the author of Policy for Play – responding to children's forgotten right (Policy Press, 2015). He has a Masters degree in Professional Studies in Children’s Play and was awarded an OBE in 2011 ‘for services to children’.

Under Adrian’s leadership, Playful Planet works with partners, associates and bespoke teams to deliver different events, contracts and activities.