Posted on Friday 10th Jan 2020
Break times at school should not be reduced, because play is a fundamental human right, a children’s author and poet says.
Michael Rosen, a former Children’s Laureate and author of We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, has joined a campaign to stop the erosion of break times, urging for play to be seen as more than an “extra”.
His comments come after a study last year found that school-break times have been cut by as much as an hour over the past two decades amid funding cuts and a drive to tackle bad behaviour.
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