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The American organisation Let Grow helps schools and parents give children more independence. We describe its two main programmes: Play Club and the Let Grow Project.

Jonathan Haidt links the rise in teenage anxiety to the loss of free play and the shift to a phone-based childhood. We summarise what he writes about play and the changes he proposes.

In 2009 two mothers in Bristol closed their street for a few hours so their children could play on it. We describe how the idea grew into a UK-wide movement and why it is easy to copy.