Play therapy helps children recover quicker yet most hospitals only have a tiny budget for it.
Play is how children learn to navigate the world, create relationships, manage their emotions and cope with stressful situations.
She believes the difference is down to play specialists, experts who entertain Afonso and play with him to support him through his treatments. "Sometimes they even look forward to coming in to see us and play in the playroom as well, which is nice. "When children go into hospital, they're traumatised, they're afraid, they're anxious, and play is the natural choice for children to feel back in control," says Cathy Gilman, chief executive of Starlight Children's Foundation, a charity which provides toys to hospitals.
"Feelings come and go. If you talk with children about feelings being like waves, and the wave comes, it feels a bit bumpy or a bit scary or a bit rocky, but the seas move over."One of the benefits of having a play specialist or therapist on hand is that they do not have the same emotional investment in a child as the parents.
But even before the pandemic, access to play support was far from universal, according to Ms Gilman, who says 80% of hospitals that use Starlight's services have no budget for play and, of those that do, it's less than £500 a year.set out a requirement for play services to be available in all hospital settings, citing research that showed play "hastened recovery, as well as reduced the need for interventions to be delivered under general anaesthesia".
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