Inclusive playgrounds

Playforce outdoor playgrounds should accommodate any child whether they happen to have a disability or not.

Playforce playground developments go beyond just allowing children with disabilities being put alongside other children but promote situations where each child can adapt and learn about the other.

Playforce playground developments are all-encompassing ensuring that children of differing abilities - particularly different physical abilities - feel they belong, are engaged, and connected.

We continue to work with special schools and schools with specific requirements for including children with disabilities. See special school testimonials. Our personal level of consultation has allowed us to develop a wealth of knowledge around special needs and inclusion which we continue to develop with every new school we encounter.

We believe that inclusion does not only lie in the design of our products but also in the way they are utilised and positioned in the outdoor playground area. Simple understandings that stepping posts for able bodied children if positioned with consideration can become a slalom course for wheel chair and crutch users. It is not only our products but our experiences which have allowed us to create outdoor playground areas for all.

We can refer schools to one another so they can establish how certain products, ideas and arrangements have been utilised successfully. Similarly schools refer Playforce to other schools after they see the benefits of installing an inclusive play area.

Playforce believe in providing equal opportunities for play for all children through the right balance of play elements in an outdoor play ground.

Any special need or disability is as diverse as the personality of each individual child, we do not attempt to compartmentalise children into groups of abilities but instead devise outdoor playground schemes which provide opportunities for all.