Some communities such as the County of Chester, PA offer Composting Education Programs for the community. Once completed the individual is recognized as a Master Composter for the County. This particular program is sponsored by the County Commissioners and facilitated by the County Health Department. I predict many communities will follow this example and begin to make wiser, more intelligent use of our green recyclables while keeping them out of the waste stream and leaving more materials to remain in our forest returning biological money back to the living system. One more advantage of your own compost site is that you can possibly avoid the addition of materials such as chips from trees that have been pumped full of dangerous synthetic chemicals that may be stored in the wood or bark.
Children do tend to play in mulched areas.