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.