we want to nurture young people who are resilient, self-reliant, entrepreneurial and adventurous – and I argue that we need to – we have to let them take risks. Risk-aversion is the last quality we need to be building in our children. As Stephen Moss put it in a report on play for the National Trust, ‘A potential risk is that children who don’t tak

Part of the license to play freely comes from being in an environment that is structured enough to provide a feeling of safety, so that the child is confident that nothing bad is going to happen.