Research published by Play Wales explores the conditions that support local authorities to secure sufficient opportunities for children to play.

Making it possible to do Play Sufficiency: Exploring the conditions that support local authorities to secure sufficient opportunities for children in Wales to play presents a summary of findings from a research study carried out by Dr Wendy Russell, Mike Barclay, Ben Tawil, and Charlotte Derry. It also includes 26 report cards of examples of actions taken to support children’s play. 

The research findings encouragingly point to five headline conditions that can support local authorities to secure sufficient play opportunities for children:

• policy alignment with, and promotion nationally and locally of, the Play Sufficiency Duty
• the right people in the right place at the right time with sufficient authority, capacity, capability and consistency
• a consistent and dedicated source of funding for Play Sufficiency
• existing and new information, including research and ways to share information
• openness to possibilities (organisational cultures that allow for being able to respond to opportunities that arise).

• cyfliniad polisi gyda’r Ddyletswydd Digonolrwydd Chwarae, a’i hybu’n lleol ac yn genedlaethol
• y bobl gywir yn y man cywir ar yr adeg gywir gyda digon o awdurdod, capasiti, gallu a chysondeb
• ffynhonnell benodedig, gyson o ariannu ar gyfer Digonolrwydd Chwarae
• gwybodaeth sy’n bodoli eisoes a gwybodaeth newydd, yn cynnwys ymchwil a ffyrdd i rannu gwybodaeth
• bod yn agored i bosibiliadau (diwylliannau sefydliadol sy’n caniatáu inni allu ymateb i gyfleoedd fydd yn codi).