The project is part of Ecore’s TRUcircularity program, which focuses on reclaiming, recycling and repurposing rubber surfacing, including flooring tracks and playgrounds, to reduce environmental impact.

The operator of Taz-Zorb, who set up inflatable equipment at Hillcrest primary school on 16 December 2021, is facing a hearing after pleading not guilty to one count of failing to comply with health and safety duty category 2 in the death of 6 children killed after a wind gust on the school’s oval lifted the jumping castle into the air with them inside of it.

The 7-year-old boy died in December 2019 during recess at his school while he was playing ball with friends. He tried to close a rolling metal gate to keep the ball on the playground when the gate fell off its runner, crushing him. He died at a nearby hospital.

A Melbourne father has been left horrified after discovering his local park was vandalised to depict an anti-Semitic message in the grass. It’s understood someone either burnt or mowed the message “Zionism = Nazi” into the grass at the popular children’s park.

The incident in Adelaide caused panic as there was no signage to indicate a pigeon cull was taking place. A resident that notified police after the incident was told the activity was perfectly legal, as there was an active pigeon cull going on in the area.

Sky News criticises the COVID pandemic response, specifically targeting the handling of children’s playgrounds. “When is anyone going to apologise for taping up children’s playgrounds like they were some crime scenes?”

Police said emergency personnel responded to the school after learning a deteriorated tree in a neighbour’s yard next to the playground had toppled. The fallen tree, likely caused by high winds that snapped tree limbs, struck one student, leaving them with critical injuries that required transportation to the hospital.

An incredible photo of an entirely metal playground extremely popular with Aussies throughout the 1970s and 80s has brought back waves of nostalgic memories for many.

Tire Stewardship B.C. (TSBC), an environmental non-profit dedicated to the collection and recycling of scrap tires, has supported the construction of an accessible playground. The new accessible playground has now been fully installed and is made in a way that can accommodate children with sight, hearing and motor skill challenges.

The parents of one of the two children who died in the Wimbledon school crash have said they hope a new investigation will end the “hell” they are going through. Selena was one of two children who died and 12 injured when a Land Rover drove into the playground of the Study Prep school last summer.

Young children have suffered broken bones, lacerations and burns on big slides, prompting calls for the removal or modification of what experts say is a dangerous item of playground equipment.

Mum says she was shocked to see a maintenance worker holding a five-litre container with a nozzle to spray the herbicide on weeds on the tanbark within the playground at about 10am. The Mornington Peninsula Shire has since admitted that it was an “operational error”. The worker said that they were approved by the shire to use glyphosate on numerous occasions this year at that playground.

The mother says her 3-year-old-son was kicked in the face when he ran in front of another child who was on a swing and suffered a busted lip. The mum says she understands accidents happen at school, but not calling to report it is unacceptable.

Ziggy Howden, 5, suffers serious finger injury on wheelchair- accessible carousel in Thurgoona Park, sparking safety concerns. The park ride has since been closed.

Workers used power tools to cut the playground equipment into smaller pieces for removal and cleared weeds, bushes, and trees where trespassers could hide. Litter removed included tarps, blankets, clothes, and other items left behind by squatters.

An Early Education Centre in Brisbane, as well as nine others, have recently overhauled their yards to increase children’s exposure to risk. It involves letting children experiment and push themselves without knowing the exact outcome and without adult intervention.

It is learnt that the agency, which was supposed to maintain the playground, and the officials who are responsible for periodical inspection have neglected in their duties. A lack of maintenance, failure to act even after public complaints regarding rusting of clamps, and negligence have been mentioned in the report.

The then 19-year-old old wiped out at the skatepark and was not wearing a helmet, doctors telling his parents he might not survive his fractured skull and traumatic brain injury. More than five years later, he continues to recover and now uses his mistake to serve as a warning for others.

Among the issues with the old equipment were sharp, rusted edges and the jungle gym threatening to collapse. The inspector also found tripping hazards, protruding bolts and piping worn away. The equipment, deemed dangerous, was taken away by public works crews three weeks ago, said the city manager.

For many adults, fitness routines often lose the sense of fun that childhood playgrounds once provided. Speaking to adult playground users, psychologists, urban planners, and fitness experts, we learn about how these outdoor spaces are transforming the fitness landscape by combining fun, nostalgia, and physical activity.

Playgrounds are being left to fall apart despite a council sitting on millions of pounds of funds from developers, opposition figures have claimed. Children who use Sefton Park playground must contend with broken equipment and disintegrated surfaces.

A state government program hands out clean syringe packs to drug users at hospitals in a bid to lower infection rates from addicts reusing dirty needles, however this Broome mother has become so concerned at the volume of needles she’s found that she now carries around a bucket to clean up the streets when she goes for walks with her kids.

A new report from a team of anthropologists from Dartmouth College in Hanover, argues that these iconic play structures exercise a biological need passed down from apes that may be critical to childhood development. And the authors say well-intentioned efforts to mitigate their risk may, in fact, be harming kids.

A total of 99% of more than 43,000 playgrounds in Britain exceed World Health Organization (WHO) recommended limits on air pollution, a lung charity has said. Asthma + Lung UK said Manchester ranked as the most polluted UK city and Birmingham also breached WHO limits for the most harmful nitrogen dioxide pollutants.

The Broome primary school girl was jabbed when she picked up a needle on the playground. Amid complaints of an alarming increase in the number of needles found discarded across the tourist town, the Shire has requested that the health department should use single-use retractable needles in their supply program aimed to prevent drug users from sharing needles.

Ongoing hostilities between area juveniles resulting in a number of recent fights in local public schools have brought forward limitations for children under the age of 18 from remaining on city streets, shopping centre’s, parking lots, parks, playgrounds, public buildings, housing development areas and similar areas that are open for use by the public at certain hours.

Shortly before midnight Friday, a homeowner called 911 to report a man was trying to disassemble equipment and steal a tire swing at a nearby playground. According to an affidavit, McFarland had three carabiners in his right pocket, which were discovered missing from the swings.

A mother had to pick up her son early from school after a Elementary School teacher saw her 4-year-old with something unusual. It turned out to be a hypodermic needle found on school campus, with officials saying her son poked himself when playing on the playground.

Police are investigating after children unknowingly discovered an apparent drug stash on a school playground. Students at a primary school found the tackle box filled with drugs and candy in the late afternoon. The box had been hidden under a T-shirt that read “senior thug” on the back, police said. A crack pipe made from a pen was also found nearby.

Residents shock finding human bowel movements on her workplace door, followed by more under the swings of a children’s playground nearby. The woman had noticed a growing problem with homelessness for the last 17 years in the Carolanne Farms neighbourhood.

City Hall is looking for ways to restrict access to public parks overnight, and the city is considering creating a bylaw that would restrict hours of access to parks in the community, but some school grounds have playgrounds and park-like spaces. must determine whether it wants to be included in this bylaw or create its own policy.

A 15-year-old boy fractured his back when the ride wire broke and caused him to collide with the structure. Earlier this year, a father also injured his back and his 18-month-old daughter suffered bruising when the frame of the swing they were riding on snapped. The father says that the chains were still intact, but the frame broke at the stress points. His solicitor is now making a claim for compensation from Kompan Ltd.

Old pictures show children in playgrounds that would give health and safety bosses nightmares. Bomb sites, derelict houses, and knackered old play equipment seemed quite normal once upon a time. Nothing seemed off limits as a good playgroup until you were told off by the neighbours.

A “destination” adventure playground attraction made partly of recycled ocean waste is coming to a popular beach location. Featuring a play tower with climbing walls and a thrilling tube slide, the beach playground is being paid for by the £4.25m ‘green up and clean up’ fund.

Food Clean collects used boots and garments through containers across the Cranswick workplace, before they are collected and taken to be recycled. Once this process has taken place, the recycled materials are then used to make playground surfaces and athletic fields.

At a time of growing interest in the naturalizing of school playgrounds, it is important to ensure that these environments are properly designed and governed to reap the many benefits they can bring to schoolchildren and society in general.

Growing Together, a Jacksonville school for children with special needs, opened its new playground after the old playground mysteriously vanished in the middle of the night.

Growing Together raised about half of what it needed for another new playground throughout the summer but wound up starting the school year without a replacement until the community stepped in to help.

Liberty and Heritage Park were spray painted with graffiti, vulgar language and obscene images, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage. Due to the strong referencing of racism and antisemitism, many locals and families came together to attempt to remove the vandalism themselves as they felt compelled to be the change and protect kids from seeing it.

The Boise Fire Department said a plastic playground set caught fire Thursday evening in a subdivision. The fire was quickly extinguished, and it has been determined that the fire was started by children playing with matches. No injuries were reported, and the children are now in fire-safe programs to prevent this from happening again.

The worried parent of the child went online to post about the hole in the ramp and tell how her child had cut their leg after falling into it. The parent also shared images on social media showing the hole and claiming it had been broken for a while.

Recommendations for installing motion-sensor cameras and lighting at both skateparks recently targeted by vandalism. Graffiti, including a swastika intermixed with other symbols and artwork, was found at the town skate park. The person who discovered the graffiti took photographs and then painted over the graffiti because he did not want children coming to the park to see it.

 ‘She looked like she just got done punching a brick wall,’ The ER diagnosed that both hands and bones in the girl’s arms were fractured. According to her mother, the 4th grader was on the playground swings when she fell off and landed on her arms. She then went to the nurse where she was given ice and sent back to class.

The marine-themed playground in Newcastle, NSW is a pre-schoolers dream. Directly next to the playground is a shared pathway, used by cyclists and e-bikes, and that’s where the 20-month-old was hit by an oncoming bike. Locals say that the accident was bound to happen eventually, and are questioning the design of the path near the playground.

A mums discovery of syringes at her local park this week is the latest incident in a ‘daunting’ trend sweeping the nation, with more and more Aussies being exposed to the dangerous items in public spaces.

The Olympics are changing the sport of skateboarding, and that in turn is changing how cities accommodate skaters. While skate parks can often be found in the corners of cities or beneath viaducts and overpasses, designers and leaders are looking ahead with skate gardens.

The 20-year-old playground was given a $60,000 upgrade in April 2023, according to the school. Plans for the upgrade started six years ago when the school established a playground planning committee. The playground structure was found slanted from the crash with a slide broken off. The perimeter around the playground was also wrapped with yellow caution tape.

Port Pirie Regional Council partnered with the Rotary Club of Port Pirie to recycle old playgrounds that don’t meet Australian standards. The old playgrounds have been replaced and will be sent to developing countries.

“If it’s possible, I would like you to help stop the many adults from coming into the playground and making it unsafe for children. It’s one thing if there are just a few of them and they don’t take up space, but there are so many.” The girls letter reads. There are signs that even say ‘no adults unless accompanied by a child’ on the playground, however no one is listening.

The skatepark covers 77,000 square feet of space with a 12-foot vertical ramp, banked walls and speed hips, 10-feet-deep bowl and a full-blown street skating experience with rails, stairs, benches, and other obstacles. One of the most interesting features though is the Texas-shaped bowl design when looked at from above.

A parent who wanted to install an enriching play area for their kids narrowly avoided the frustration of dealing with one of landscaping’s most hated materials. Before building, they asked for advice online and the responses were shocking! “I have never used rubber mulch. Was looking for feedback on how well it works for a kid’s play set area?”

Some social media users experienced sticker shock when seeing the price tag for a newly installed playground that came in at $1.1 million. The district executive director has responded stating, “this is not a playset you purchase at Walmart – it is a commercial grade playground specially outfitted for inclusive play”.

 Stressed out and in need of a break from adulting? Anyone can benefit from spending an hour or two at interactive playgrounds and themed gaming areas, where you can let loose, laugh, get active, win games, and have some wholesome fun with friends and family. Check out the list of Philippines best playgrounds.

A study done on girl skateboarders examines local skateboarding sites and communities and finds that they are beneficial to mental health and social connection, however, can be met with criticism as a female. “Girls stand out in skateboarding spaces, so they are observed more and need to prove their skills to be seen as a skater, rather than poser.”

Verbal complaints about a wooden play structure in the style of a train has led to its removal after further inspection. “The train had been completely rotted. There were some areas you could push your hand right through the wood.” An employee from the Public Works department of Elberta explained.

Community members say they were ‘not opposed to the new skatepark’ but took issue with its proximity to their homes and the main road. It is alleged that residents have had ongoing issues with anti-social behaviour in their vicinity with boy racers and ‘drinking parties’ in the nearby cemetery and feel that other locations that would better suit the location.

“It is super-fast and fun but is a solid hit for sure before you pop out.” Multiple Locals have shared their experiences on the slide, one saying that their skull and shoulder blade was bruised, and another that a child’s face was hurt. The council says while this slide meets Australian standards, they have closed it for investigation considering the concerns raised.

Work has begun on an iconic new nature playground at Kalgoorlie’s Bushland Park, delivering on an important election commitment for the local community. The nature playground will provide an additional recreational space for local families and children, set within a 200-hectare natural reserve and incorporates a zipline, large climbing structure and a slide.

A popular children’s playground has been closed due to ‘hundreds of pounds’ worth of damage accumulated by 3 separate vandalism incidents in weeks. Safety flooring was ripped up in several spots, litter bins were broken open and rubbish was left strewn across the area.

It will cost more than $100,000 to fix this Skate and Bike Park’s concrete pad, which was partly fenced off for a year because it was unsafe and crumbling. Concerns arose when workers removed the damaged section of concrete pad and discovered that it sat atop a previously unknown layer of insulation and another concrete pad.

Officials say over 4,000 gallons of sewage had flooded the elementary school playground. The release was controlled within 1 hour of responding, and environmental services urge the public to be cautious with what they flush and put down the sink to avoid these clogs from happening.

Pride-themed artwork at a skatepark has been defaced days after its completion. The art installation was created to celebrate “diversity and inclusion”. Offensive graffiti including Nazi symbols and racial slurs have been plastered over parts of the artwork.

The woman rolled her ankle after she lost her balance when stepping from an area covered in mulch to a raised artificial surface at a playground in 2021. The Park was under the care and control of the Council, who received 2 reports prior to her incident about replenishing the mulch. She has now won a liability claim.

The driver rallied the car onto the skatepark – which was only opened on 12 July – before seemingly trying their hand at doughnuts and other tricks, leaving the fresh surface covered in skid marks. Essex Police have since picked up the vehicle, which was abandoned in the skatepark’s bowl but are still seeking information on the thief’s whereabouts.

A campaign to build a new skatepark is close to fruition after it received huge donations and grants. It will be replacing a skatepark that the community has pushed for renewal ever since it was purposefully set alight after a van was driven into it in 2009.

Photos shared online show electrical wires hanging down onto the playground, and the playground engulfed in flames. A 911 caller said a semi-truck pulled down an electrical line which then started the fire.

The structure was designed to maximise shading; The percentage of direct light exposure to guarantee performance was calculated and the outline of the courtyard has a singular curvature, which was used to determine the overall layout. It now serves both as a shading device for the elementary school playground and creates a cultural event space.

Residents are furious as local playground has been once again deliberately set on fire. It is believed that since May of last year, the fire services have been called to the playground at least 12 times. The recent fire was lit in broad daylight and the rubber area under the swings was destroyed.

Two teenagers  are facing charges in Maryland for allegedly setting their neighbourhood playground on fire, causing over $200k in damages. Investigators say the brothers lit tissues on fire and placed them under the equipment, causing the damage. They then took pictures of the destruction with their phones.

The non-profit supplies equipment, safety gear, lessons and other support to youth in tricky positions or low-income situations and recently received a $16 thousand donation from the family of late graffiti artist and skateboarder Eli Kerslake.

Families asked to be patient whilst work begins on replacing sand at several local playgrounds affected by June flooding with 1,400 yards of engineered wood fibre. Parks and Rec are replacing the entire materials due to possible contaminants and debris left behind by the floods.

The playground at the park was closed Monday so city crews could spend several days cutting down and grinding two potentially dangerous trees. The deteriorating trees were large enough and close enough to the playground to pose a hazard.

32 tons of tree debree collected after storm rocks town. The singular shade tree shading the playground fell, damaging the asphalt surfacing that was only finished 3 days before the storm hit.

Three children were sitting on a park bench at a Norwood playground when a massive branch from an old oak tree suddenly came crashing down. It brushed several children and left one girls leg trapped underneath it. The branch was so heavy that firefighters had to use specialized equipment to lift it off her.

The damage to a newly installed playground was posted online after being ransacked by Vandals. Equipment was broken and strewn across the playground, rubbish was littered everywhere, and a plastic chair was lit on fire and thrown into a nearby bush. The playground was only installed earlier this year.

A small modest playground near a parking lot has been replaced with a parking lot and residents are not happy. “The village should be paving over streets, not playgrounds,” a local commented. As nondescriptive as the playground might have been, residents are in uproar over its loss.

City authorities revealed a new skatepark structure combining sports, innovation, and construction. It features the world’s largest 3D-printed skate sculpture, “The Wave.”

We’ve seen countless events at skateparks, and they usually last for the duration of said event, but what if those designs were built to be permanent? Consisting of two eggs and a piece of bacon within a frying pan shaped bowl, this complete breakfast functions as a skateable art piece.

Given a hard hat, yellow safety vest and a clipboard – work is all play if you’re a kid and the job site is a playground. Meet the kid inspectors, they are with the DC department of parks and rec and their job is to put a new playground to the test.

London has CCMS, a condition that has been reported less than 90 times worldwide, ever. She has a feeding tube and needs to always be on a ventilator, so the Make-A-Wish foundation donated a playground to her.

Heartbroken owner describes his trailer containing North America’s only mobile playground being stolen by thieves at the busiest time of the year. The equipment stolen totalled to over $60,000.

With the final touches to finish off this playground, it’s reveal is a blend of playfulness and accessibility. Children can climb a soft serve ice cream cup and slide down or play in an inclusive mound slide. There’s a climbing tower with a tunnel slide, swing sets, a banana split themed seesaw and more!

A Perth mum is calling on the community in a bid to raise funds for a new sensory playground for kids living with ADHD while shining a light on the heartbreaking reality of raising children with the disability in WA’s education sphere.

Asphalt, a material commonly used in playground surfacing has left a homeless man with one leg amputated after he suffered from a heat stroke and fell on the hot pathway, causing detrimental burns to both of his legs. Children were among the many reported burn victims last year for this facility, from walking barefoot, crawling on or touching hot surfaces and especially playing on playgrounds.

It may not seem like a huge change, but the surface of this playground is a part of what makes Kayla’s Playground special. The new surfacing will be accessible to mobility aids and support people with disabilities. Wood chips commonly found as ground cover prevents some wheels from easily navigating the playground.

A playground remains closed after a father and his 3-and-9-year-old daughters experienced electric shocks when they grabbed onto metal handrails on the ramp, resulting in burns that required medical treatment. It is believed that this was caused by a malfunctioning air conditioning unit and the family are now considering a lawsuit.

The NSW playground was vandalised in December, causing irreparable damage to the equipment. Community feedback was encouraged for the upgraded design of the playground and adjustments were made to create the final design.

As the Paris Olympic Games draw near, the city is witnessing an exciting development. Starting on July 18, a 400m² skatepark created using 3D concrete printing will be open to the public.

Officials say that the play equipment was removed so immediately without a planned replacement due to aging, rusted and overall unsafe equipment for children to play on. A 6 foot tall Metal slide with burn risks and no guardrails was among the many factors contributing to its significant liability, and it was soon removed.

From funding to plant full grown trees in and around parks, focusing on shade sails, avoiding stainless steel, using recycled lumber, and adopting lighter colours on equipment and surfacing to reflect heat and light – This is a list of techniques and designs Architects are currently using to work against the Texas heat.

The public playground is “unusable” if it rains for 20 minutes, according to a councillor. people are “being forced into their cars” to drive to an alternative venue. Hewas upgrading work is needed on the playground, but this is “being pushed into the future.”

Taylor Cullity Lethlean’s state-of-the-art play space won the Award of Excellence for Play Spaces, the Healthy Parks Healthy People Award, and the People’s Choice Award in the AILA Landscape Architecture Awards. These awards recognize exceptional projects that enhance both natural and built environments across the nation.

Hayman Park (Manu-kau Noa Iho), which opened last July and cost $10.8 million to upgrade, scooped the planning and urban design award for its 12.8 metre-play tower in New Zealand Institute of Architects Awards. It also won the excellence award in the play spaces category for the 2024 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Awards.

Visitors to one of Perth’s most popular dam recreation areas, Serpentine Dam, can now enjoy a new nature-based playground and improved facilities, thanks to a 2.5-million-dollar upgrade by Water Corporation.

The project will replace old rubber tile surfacing with poured-in-place rubber safety surfacing, according to a memo included in the PenMet Parks’ Board of Commissioners meeting agenda for March 19. Gaps have formed between some of the current tiles.

It might look like junk, but for these children, it’s an outdoor rumpus room teeming with endless possibilities for play. Loose parts litter the grassy playspace – bread crates, oil drums, concrete tunnels, old tyres and ropes. The “play sanctuary” was established two years ago through a partnership with the Australian Institute of Play for a primary school.

The playground is prone to floods because of its location, and after flooding, the playground is covered in a “green slime” of algae, fungi and moss, adding the ground is also starting to break up. The area around the playground is also overgrown, the roundabout broken, and the play equipment muddy and not maintained.

A Melbourne council has caved into community pressure and finally responded to complaints from last year’s costly playground upgrade – which many find more fitting to call a downgrade instead. The park used to have a slide, spring rider, swing set, and jungle gym, but now it only has one swing and a small set of “unreachable” gym bars.

A Mother took her children to a playground in Secret Harbour on Sunday afternoon only to spot a barely-visible piece of fishing line tied between climbing ropes. “If a child had found it or run through it, the injury, it could have been fatal, it’s right where the neck would go.”

Footage has captured firefighters tackling a large blaze that was “started deliberately” in a children’s playground. Footage has captured firefighters tackling a large blaze that was “started deliberately” in a children’s playground.

Campaign group Playvolution is calling on stressed parents to name and shame dangerous playgrounds, compiling a shortlist of some of the nation’s most disappointing playgrounds so they can shine a light on the disrepair – with the hope that councils will put them right.

Last September, a groundskeeper at a school in Australia noticed a huge snake napping peacefully at the top of a piece of wooden playground equipment. Rescuers said these carpet python snakes can be found all over sunshine coast, and this one decided that the school playground was a good place to nap.

A rotten wooden frame had reportedly broken in two, leaving children in tears and needing hospital treatment. Children were then seen playing on the broken equipment days after because the Council failed to clear it up.The Council did two separate inspections on the playground in May, and did not find ‘significant issues,’ with independent inspectors classifying it as low risk.

A public toilet block in Adelaide’s west has sparked safety concerns after locals argued it was too see-through. The doors, which are made from mesh metal and feature in other parks, were installed several years ago without any official complaints. Temporary screens remain on the public toilet doors until they are fixed.

Preschools and indoor playgrounds are stepping up their cleaning measures as the number of cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) spike in Singapore. The cases hit a high this year with an average of 50 cases reported a day, which statistics show this is up from 29 cases in the same period last year.

Tensions are in full swing at a playground as housing-project residents battle to keep private-school families, including those from the close by $64,000-USD-per-year school, out of their newly renovated playground. This escalated last week when nasty signs were put up forbidding non-residents from the playground.

A city playground in Columbus was mistakenly demolished by a contractor who was hired to remove a nearby elementary school playground in preparation for replacement. The contractor has taken full responsibility for the mishap and plans to install a new playground, which will be up within the next two months.

Less than a week after an 8-year-old girl was attacked while riding her bike, a 4-year-old boy playing on the nearby playground was stomped by an adult elk. Following these incidents, the playground has been permanently closed and sections of the nature trail were shut down. No serious injuries were reported, with the elk’s behaviours determined to be instinctual protection of their calves.

A children’s slide described a “death trap” by parents has been closed off after a toddler was filmed falling from it. His mother said she “felt sick” when she saw her two year old son Freddie land on his head after toppling from the ride in Pontefract Park on Wednesday.

The park is home to several oak trees that provide shade on sunny days, but the trees are also a favourite among rash-causing Brown-tail Moth Caterpillars, both an invasive and poisonous species. Pesticide has been sprayed throughout the park, and the playground will remain closed until further notice.

After 14 years, a plane that served various purposes at a school, such as a play area, classroom, storage, and interview spot, has been removed. Despite renovation attempts in 2020, the school found it unusable and costly, prompting the decision to take it away.

The child’s mother claims her 5-year-old son contracted the disease after playing at a park during a field trip. This disease is especially painful for children and causes blister-like lesions on the face, mouth and throat and is spread through secretion from the mouth or faeces. The disease normally occurs when children congregate and can be simply prevented through hand washing.

Visiting playgrounds is essential for children’s development, but around 200,000 U.S. children are injured annually on playgrounds. Safety education is crucial, focusing on supervision, age-appropriate equipment, hazard awareness, and teaching proper use. Choosing playgrounds with safe surfaces and protecting against heat-related risks are also key safety measures.

The Award of Excellence in the Play Spaces category went to the design of the new Perth Zoo Playground. It includes an accessible bridge, an endangered Numbat play sculpture, flying Cockatoo models, an engaging Gibbon mimicry experience, a 40m (131ft) rope tunnel—one of the country’s longest—and overhead brachiating ropes.

“Injecting drugs, nudity, harassing children, screaming outside,” Parents recount horrifying experiences from their school playground after new homeless and drug safe facility opened nearby. Although catering to help people in need, it appears this location has now become a new target and hangout spot.