Fraser Brown is the first Professor of Playwork in the UK, and teaches on the Playwork degree course at Leeds Beckett University. He is the specialist link tutor for APAC’s postgraduate play therapy courses, and has presented at conferences across the UK and around the world. His publications include Play and Playwork: 101 Stories of Children Playing (2014).Mike Wragg is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, and the Chair of two charitable　trusts: Eccleshill Adventure Playground, and New Hall Prison Visitors’ Play Facility, both of which have been subject of his recent publications in the International Journal of Play and in the Prison Service Journal.

• Introduction 1. The state of playwork 2. Memories of and reflections on play 3. Complex geographies of play provision dis/investment across the UK 4. Play in the good times: the (English) inside story 5. The Big Lottery Fund’s Children’s Play Programme: a missed opportunity to gather the evidence? 6. Slip sliding away: a case study of the impact of public sector cuts on some of the services supporting children’s play opportunities in the city of Sheffield in the north of England 7. Playwork practitioners’ perceptions of the impact on play of austerity in the UK: comparing experiences in Scotland and SW England 8. Supporting healthy street play on a budget: a winner from every perspective 9. Opportunities for free play 10. Promoting playfulness in publicly initiated scientific research: for and beyond times of crisis 11. ‘Strategic playwork’: a possibility that is neither ‘intervention playwork’ nor ‘environmental playwork’ 12. Geographies for play in austere times 13. Sharing playwork identities: research across the UK’s field of playwork 14. Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner 15. The Big Swing: reflections on the first 10 years of an adventure playground 16. Books worth (re)reading: Adventure playgrounds

Fraser Brown is the first Professor of Playwork in the UK, and teaches on the Playwork degree course at Leeds Beckett University. He is the specialist link tutor for APAC’s postgraduate play therapy courses, and has presented at conferences across the UK and around the world. His publications include Play and Playwork: 101 Stories of Children Playing (2014).Mike Wragg is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, and the Chair of two charitable　trusts: Eccleshill Adventure Playground, and New Hall Prison Visitors’ Play Facility, both of which have been subject of his recent publications in the International Journal of Play and in the Prison Service Journal.

• Introduction 1. The state of playwork 2. Memories of and reflections on play 3. Complex geographies of play provision dis/investment across the UK 4. Play in the good times: the (English) inside story 5. The Big Lottery Fund’s Children’s Play Programme: a missed opportunity to gather the evidence? 6. Slip sliding away: a case study of the impact of public sector cuts on some of the services supporting children’s play opportunities in the city of Sheffield in the north of England 7. Playwork practitioners’ perceptions of the impact on play of austerity in the UK: comparing experiences in Scotland and SW England 8. Supporting healthy street play on a budget: a winner from every perspective 9. Opportunities for free play 10. Promoting playfulness in publicly initiated scientific research: for and beyond times of crisis 11. ‘Strategic playwork’: a possibility that is neither ‘intervention playwork’ nor ‘environmental playwork’ 12. Geographies for play in austere times 13. Sharing playwork identities: research across the UK’s field of playwork 14. Ethical practice for the playwork practitioner 15. The Big Swing: reflections on the first 10 years of an adventure playground 16. Books worth (re)reading: Adventure playgrounds