Description
Institute for Safe Play aims to make a project - Innovative Play-Way as a step forward in the activities of the institution ( institution has been operating successfully since 2012), which operates in the field of children's rights protection and awareness-raising about the importance of safe -and at the same time - creative toys, play kits and play areas. Slovenia still lags far behind in this field because there is no effective and comprehensive control and adaptation of legislation and regulations in required, as advocated by the Institute for Safe Play. Within this project the first Innovative Play-Way will be developed - with playing surface and specially designed play tools on the way to school - and made useful, interesting and safe with the professional help of the project team. They will also provide special workshops to educate public (children and adults) about the importance of children's play which is at the same time safe. The purpose of this project is therefore to run a few essential activities which will contribute to Institute's final mission and encourage cooperation at many levels: with sectoral as well as with regional and national authorities.
Summary of project results
Slovenia lags far behind in the field of child safety and safe play because there is no effective and comprehensive control and adaptation of legislation and regulations in required, as advocated by the Institute for Safe Play. Within this project the first Innovative Play-Way was developed - with playing surface and specially designed play tools on the way to school. They also provided special escort for the children to use the Play-Way and to educate public (children and adults) about the importance of children's play which is at the same time safe. they also established good cooperation with two local communities - in Ljubljana and in Celje.
Summary of bilateral results
The partner from Iceland provide the beneficiary with their experiences and their model of play-way. They used their model and adopted it for Slovenian environment. The cooperation continues, the partners are in regular contacts and will try to develop some other projects together.