Playworker is a British professional term for a trained childcare worker who specialises in supporting children's play — facilitating free play environments in after-school clubs, adventure playgrounds, and holiday schemes.
Playworker is a British professional term for a trained childcare worker who specialises in supporting children's play — facilitating free play environments in after-school clubs, adventure playgrounds, and holiday schemes. The role is distinct from teaching or formal childminding; playworkers are trained in play theory and believe in child-led, unstructured play as a developmental right. The term is specific to the British playwork sector and comes with a professional qualification framework and vocational ethics.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK) A branch of childcare involving the supervision and development of play.
Work that is very easy or enjoyable.
(UK, education) A childcare worker who monitors a child's development and participation in activities and discusses these with the child's parents or carer.
(obsolete, UK, _, dialectal) A plaything; a toy.
The after-school club employed three playworkers who set up activities but mostly stayed out of the children's way.
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(UK) A childcarer involved in playwork.
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