Do You Let Your Kids Play Out?

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Sociopolitical Documentary hosted by Fiona Foster, published by ITV broadcasted as part of ITV Tonight series in 2014 - English narration

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Do You Let Your Kids Play Out? The holiday season is underway and millions of children are looking forward to a school-free summer. But research reveals a dramatic loss of children’s independence with many parents worried about the dangers of allowing them to play outside unsupervised. In 1971, The Policy Studies Institute began a survey of children and found that just fewer than 50% of seven year olds had the freedom to travel around their local neighbourhoods unsupervised. Forty years later they found that less than 10% of seven year olds enjoy that same level of independence. According to campaign group Play England, the main barriers to parents allowing their kids to play out unsupervised are volume and speed of traffic and lack of ‘neighbourliness’. Simply not knowing the other kids and parents on our street makes us more concerned about letting our own children out of our sight. So is the world a more dangerous place today? Or are we just more aware of the risks?