Children’s health is suffering because they are losing the chance to play outside, a group of experts has warned.

Over-anxious parents, computer games and school tests are to blame. The decline in “unstructured, loosely supervised” play is also adversely affecting children’s mental health, and it also threatens young people’s long-term development.

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