Playwork in Practice: Applying the Playwork Lens Across the Children''s Workforce

About Ali WoodJacky KilvingtonJulia Sexton

Ali Wood is a freelance playwork consultant. She is currently a director of The Youth Opportunities Board Solihull has co-managed Meriden Adventure Playground for the last several years and is a trustee of The Playwork Foundation. She has researched and written about all of these endeavours and both trained and assessed related qualifications. She is co-author with Jacky Kilvington of Reflective Playwork (Bloomsbury 2018) and Gender Sex and Children's Play (Bloomsbury 2016). Julia Sexton is Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at Sheffield Hallam University UK. She is a trustee of Pitsmoor Adventure Playground and The Playwork Foundation. She has been involved in playwork for over 35 years working in various play settings including playschemes after school clubs community projects adventure playgrounds as well as being a playwork trainer and assessor. She has been a primary school teacher a carer a family support worker and worked in Special Education. Jacky Kilvington (now retired) was originally an art teacher in school and a part-qualified part-time youth worker. She also worked for community recreation as a playworker on holiday playschemes. Subsequently she developed a holiday club for the children of college students and ran an afterschool club. Throughout her career she has worked as a playwork consultant and has designed written delivered and assessed material for many of the national playwork qualification providers. She is co-author with Ali Wood of Reflective Playwork (Bloomsbury 2018) and Gender Sex and Children's Play (Bloomsbury 2016).