API Publications

• API: Directory of Members
  2013/14 Directory of members also includes: 8 Questions every buyer should ask their play space
  provider; Play Surfacing 9 Jargon busting facts...; Spotlight on Play; PlayFair; Be Smart, Be Safe maing the right play safety choices.
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• API: Surfacing Code of Practice - Provision of Impact Attenuating Surfaces
  The API has published a new Code of Practice: Provision of Impact Attenuating Surfaces document. The Code of Practice has been produced to provide prospective clients and specifiers with guidance on the types of surfacing options available. The document includes useful information on basic construction requirements, specification and maintenance currently employed in constructing impact absorbing surfaces in playgrounds.
  
  

• API:  Top Tips for Finding a Quality Play Provider
  To combat misuse of the API brand and highlight the benefits of using an API member, the API has created a new resource for schools, communities and local authorities.    

• API: Community benefits of children's play areas
  This booklet demonstrates, through a series of case studies, just how inspirational and beneficial children's play areas can be within communities.
          
•  API: Technical Guide to Playground Layout & Design  
  The guidance given in this document has been formulated as a result of a design conference held by the API.  Amongst other issues, there was general concern that current procurement methods were leading designers to locate equipment items as tightly together as possible to reduce costs.     

• API: The Politics of Play - The Importance of Play to Children and Wider Society
  This document examines the importance of play to children and also to wider society.  It outlines an action plan which gives the API's views on how to build on the success of the National Play Strategy to ensure that we maximise its potential to improve the health and well-being of all our children.   

• The API Guide to Outdoor Play Area Installation This document is currently being updated following the revision of BSEN1176:2008 - all parts