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The IPA Declaration of the Child’s Right to Play was originally produced in November 1977 at the IPA Malta Consultation held in preparation for the International Year of the Child (1979). It was revised by the IPA International Council in Vienna, September 1982, and Barcelona, September 1989.

The IPA Declaration should be read in conjunction with Article 31 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, November 20, 1989), which states that the child has a right to leisure, play, and participation in cultural and artistic activities.

The Declaration on the Importance of Play
reaffirms IPA’s stated aim and intent to:
• Protect the right to play
• Preserve the right to play
• Promote the right to play

IPA promotes the right of all children and young people to time, freedom and space to play in their own way.

IPA endorses the premise that playing is a universal behaviour, and that the benefits to children and young people achieving their right to play are shared by all races and people around the world.

IPA will foster and facilitate evidence gathering and exchange (beyond and between international borders):

• to inform, invigorate, critique and enhance research, policy and practice relating to play, environments for play and playwork

• recognising that international professional networking and relationship building encourages mutual support and promotes understanding

Declaration on the Importance of Play 2014

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