Bob Hughes – an impressive unparalleled contribution

I have been reading through Bob’s website and the work of Play Education. Bob made an impressive unparalleled contribution to playwork theory, training and to our literature base.
You can find details on:
http://rphughes44.blogspot.co.uk

Below is an extract from the About page:

“The scientific evidence shows that opportunities to play must be viewed as more than just a right for our children, and rather a life essential. For it shows that children who do not play cannot enjoy the scientifically proven benefits of playing eg a bigger more highly organised and flexible brain refined to the adaptive needs of the present, heightened resilience and optimism, muscular growth, flexible problem solving capacity, mental mapping and memory, the ability to adapt to todays challenges and improved physical and mental health, and none players having a much greater chance than playing children of suffering the effects of a condition known as play deprivation which in mild doses makes children irritable and unhappy but which in more concentrated forms may turn some children into killers and mass murderers.”

Bobs very impressive CV is on the page titled “Bob Hughes” – his voluntary contribution to so many committees and working parties through our chequered Playwork history from the National Playing Fields Association to Play Board, the Sports Council and the rise of NVQs Playwork degrees and qualications has had enormous and far reaching impact.

There is also a history of all the Play Education conferences from 1982 with key debates and presenters – a rich ecclectic mix.
Bob will leave a gaping hole in our small but very important Play and Playwork sector. Sending love to Bobs family and wider network of music friends and other scientific and none scientific friends.