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A new report recommends scrapping the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) for a new National Assessment System that puts students’ interests first.

The Phase 2 report surveyed nearly 2,500 parents, grandparents and caregivers and collected data about more than 5,000 children across Australia on home use of digital devices by young people during the pandemic.

In this short article, we explain what play is, how we all benefit from letting the children play more, what Australians think about play, and what parents and teachers can do to get our children, and all of us, to play more and better in and out of school.