📢 We've got FREE resources for Health Play Professionals!

Maybe you're looking for a weekly cleaning log? Or a Play Specialist referral form to be able to highlight a child who can benefit from a play specialist?

We've got you.

👉🏻 Head here: starlight.org.uk/how-we-help/he…

SoHPS are grateful to everyone that is supporting the health play workforce development strategy
Thank you for championing health play specialists and health play workers so we can continue to improve support BCYP in healthcare Skills for Health 💙 Starlight NHS England

📢 We need YOUR help!

We're calling on the next government to increase the play workforce in the NHS as part of our manifesto for children’s play in healthcare.

📝 Sign our pledge and help us put play on the agenda: starlight.org.uk/play-manifesto

What a superstar! 🤩 Absolutely fab poem about the importance of play for children in hospital…
Well done Sfyiah! 🧸🪆🪄🪇

I've just pledged to put play on the agenda! ✍

@Starlight_UK is calling on the next government to increase the play workforce in the NHS as part of their manifesto for children’s play in healthcare.

Will you support them and sign the pledge? starlight.org.uk/play-manifesto 💚⭐

Today, it's #InternationalDayOfPlay and our CEO Cathy has shared some words on the importance of helping children be their best, stay healthy and feel good while in hospital, through the power of play.

👉 Read the blog post here: starlight.org.uk/have-we-forgot…

It's #InternationalDayOfPlay and our superstar Sfyiah has written the most INCREDIBLE poem that truly shows the importance of play for children in hospital. 🧸

For children in healthcare, play is their best protection against anxiety and trauma.

Protecting and promoting play is essential to ensuring every child is as physically and mentally healthy as they can be. So on #InternationalDayofPlay we welcome this manifesto from Starlight, a member of the Children & Young People's Health Policy Influencing Group we host.

For anyone with kids who has experienced time in hospital, you know how vital this is. Please sign this pledge for more and better play #InternationalDayOfPlay #BecausePlayMatters

Thank you for sharing the Starlight manifesto for play in healthcare, Peter Stefanovic! 👍 We're asking the next government to commit to the below 5 point national plan 👇🏥

I've just pledged to put play on the agenda! ✍

@Starlight_UK is calling on the next government to increase the play workforce in the NHS as part of their manifesto for children’s play in healthcare.

Will you support them and sign the pledge? starlight.org.uk/play-manifesto 💚⭐

I've just made the PlayPledge! Will you?

“There is growing evidence that by reducing children’s stress levels through play, they engage better in their care & treatment”

Starlight want politicians to promise children government policy will support play as part of a happy, healthy childhood & protect children’s play

I've just pledged to put play on the agenda! ✍

@Starlight_UK is calling on the next government to increase the play workforce in the NHS as part of their manifesto for children’s play in healthcare.

Will you support them and sign the pledge? starlight.org.uk/play-manifesto 💚⭐

📢 Here's why play should be a non-negotiable in children's healthcare.

Listen to Lucy, a Starlight-funded health play specialist, highlight how play supports her patients + why it should be a basic requirement.

👉🏽 Read her blog: starlight.org.uk/play-should-be…

🌟 Meet another amazing Starlight team member!

Rhiannon develops + delivers our health play resources to UK healthcare settings.

For her, play means freedom and joy for everyone. Growing up in the countryside, she loved playing in the fields, dodging livestock + farmers. 🚜