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No outdoor play 'hurts children'
Published: 01 October, 2007
Children's health is suffering because they are losing the chance to play outside, a group of experts has warned.
Over-anxious parents, computer games and school tests are to blame, a letter signed by almost 300 academics, authors and charity leaders says.
The decline in "unstructured, loosely supervised" play is adversely affecting children's mental health, they add.
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