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Author: Sammy Wyeth

September Updates

9 September 2021

Welcome to our September updates blog! If you would like to receive our…

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Job advertisement at Play Scotland

6 September 2021

Come and work with us! Play Scotland are recruiting a Digital Membership and…

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Playwork/Practitioner Opportunity at Newtongrange ASC

24 August 2021

Newtongrange ASC based in Newtongrange Primary school has the following vacancies for enthusiastic…

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Scotland’s Children Get into Summer

4 August 2021

Today, thousands of children and their families will be out playing in communities…

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Play Scotland play parks letter July 2021

2 August 2021

Play Scotland calls for a strategic approach to planning accessible and inclusive spaces…

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Get into Summer Young Scot Rewards

2 August 2021

Young Scot Rewards is part of Young Scot’s national online Membership programme. Through…

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Magic Light Pictures’ Pip and Posy team with Playday

30 July 2021

The multi-Oscar nominated Magic Light Pictures today announced that Pip and Posy, its new…

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Wilderness fears as play experts warn children’s fun must not be curtailed by unmown grass

26 July 2021

‘…Marguerite Hunter Blair, chief executive of Play Scotland, fears the move may discourage…

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NatureScot/Scottish Government Commissioned Research

20 July 2021

Key messages The research highlights some key factors that may have played a…

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Play Safety Forum: Covid-19 and Children’s Play July 2021 statement

14 July 2021

The UK Play Safety Forum (PSF) has issued two previous statements on the…

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Playful Communities: Evaluation Report

9 July 2021

Play Scotland are delighted to release the evaluation report of the Playful Communities…

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Moths to a Flame Art Workshop for COP26

7 July 2021

We are very excited to be delivering Moths to a Flame workshops for…

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Participate in Together’s State of Children’s Rights Report survey 2021

29 June 2021

Together has released their annual State of Children’s Rights Report survey! To follow…

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Parks for People: why should we invest in parks?

29 June 2021

Evidence from the Parks for People programme and six case studies uncovers the…

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We are hiring Digital Membership & Services Officer £27,828 pro-rata 20 hours per week

Play Scotland Digital Membership and Services Officer

25 June 2021

Come and work with us!  Play Scotland are recruiting a Digital Membership and…

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Covid-19 restrictions impacting children’s play

14 June 2021

PlayBoard NI, Stranmillis University College and the Controlled Schools’ Support Council recently embarked…

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Summer of play delivery opportunity in partnership with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

10 June 2021

Outdoor learning and play facilitator (ranger) Notes of interest (including proposed cost) by…

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Glasgow chosen as host city for 2023 International Play Association World Congress

8 June 2021

The International Play Association (IPA) has chosen Glasgow as the location of its…

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Health, the Outdoors and Safety

27 May 2021

Professor David Ball has published a paper on the salutogenic model of health…

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New joint-agency publication: Why society needs nature

26 May 2021

This newly published report from a collaboration between the Environment Agency, Natural Resources…

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Return to roots: How the pandemic shaped outdoor play

24 May 2021

Children had been spending less and less time outdoors before the coronavirus pandemic…

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‘Let children play’: the educational message from across Europe

14 May 2021

The Guardian article by Jon Henley, Philip Oltermann, Sam Jones and Angela Giuffrida…

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Skip the kindergarten cop routine: free play is vital for young children

13 May 2021

The Guardian article by Michael Rosen Give children the space to express themselves…

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Learning through Landscapes: Apply for wet weather clothing for your class!

13 May 2021

With 4.2 million children in the UK living in poverty – that’s 9…

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Scotland’s Play Charter

Scotland’s Play Charter describes our collective commitment to play for all children and young people. Supporters of the Charter know that children have the right to play and value play as an essential part of children’s health and wellbeing as individuals and part of the community.

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Pledges to Scotland’s Play Charter

  • Fenton Barns Nursery
  • Mini Me Yoga Ambassador
  • Warout Primary School
  • Support from the Start Dunbar Cluster
  • Middleton Park School
  • MyParkScotland
  • Green Aspirations Scotland CIC
  • Inclusive Play
  • CHAS
  • Aberdeenshire Council
  • Dunblane Youth & Sports Centre Trust
  • Support from the Start Musselburgh Cluster
  • Giffnock Nursery Class
  • Coastguard Club
  • Monkey Puzzle Glasgow Central
  • St Joseph’s Primary School
  • First Nursery
  • Wee Gems
  • Support from the Start Haddington Cluster
  • Kidsize Out of School Club
  • Perth Autism Support
  • Little Lunches
  • East Park
  • Loader Monteith
  • Black Lion Games
  • Bankhead After School Care Service
  • Forestry and Land Scotland
  • Whinhill Primary School
  • Edinburgh Young Carers Project
  • Little Scallywags Nursery
  • Play Borders
  • St Rose of Lima Primary School
  • Siblings Together and Reunited (STAR)
  • West Johnstone Early Learning and Childcare Centre
  • Education Department East Dunbartonshire Council
  • Falkirk Community Trust Libraries
  • Include Me 2 Club
  • Burnfoot Community School
  • Hyndland After School Club
  • Perth & Kinross Council
  • Caldercuilt Primary School & Nursery
  • Chanonry Beaver Scouts
  • St David’s Primary School
  • Musselburgh Burgh Primary School
  • Play Alloa
  • Springfield Primary School
  • Home-Start Levenmouth
  • Fife College
  • City of Edinburgh Council
  • EA Junior School
  • Outdoor Woodland Learning School (OWLS)
  • Woodlands Family Nurture Centre
  • South Lanarkshire Council
  • Scout Association
  • Voluntary Action
  • Sgoil-àraich Taobh na Pàirce
  • Queens Cross Housing Association
  • Home-Start Edinburgh West and South West
  • TICTACS After School Service
  • Broomhill OOSC
  • Mosstodloch Primary School
  • Leisure and Culture
  • Commercial Primary School
  • Craigour Park Primary School and Nursery
  • Balornock Primary School
  • Quarriers
  • Alyth OOSC
  • Gowrie Training and Consultancy
  • Seamab
  • Dunbar Primary School Nursery
  • Aberlady ELOSCN
  • Liberton After School Club
  • Fife Gingerbread
  • Abbey Mill Childcare
  • Barlanark Out of School Care
  • Innerwick Primary and Nursery School
  • Antonine Primary School
  • Hearts and Minds
  • St Boswells Primary School
  • Camperdown Primary School and Nursery
  • St Andrew’s RC Primary School
  • YouthLink Scotland
  • Penicuik YMCA-YWCA
  • Clermiston Primary School and Nursery
  • City of Glasgow College
  • St David’s Primary RC
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Muck Primary School
  • Cosy Cottage Nursery School
  • Stramash
  • Buttons & Bows Nursery School
  • Home-Start Wigtownshire
  • West Lothian Council
  • Newmains Family Learning Centre
  • Stirling Play Services, Stirling Council
  • Clackmannanshire Council
  • Fields in Trust Scotland
  • NG Homes
  • Bruce Family Centre
  • High School of Dundee
  • Whitburn and District Community Development Trust
  • Healthy Valleys
  • Busby Primary School
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • Babysign
  • NHS Health Scotland
  • Cambusbarron Village Nursery
  • Galleon Centre
  • Dirleton Playgroup
  • Project 31
  • Newtongrange ASC
  • Fun Lodge After School Care
  • James Gillespie’s Nursery
  • ACE Place Nursery and OSC
  • Rattray Primary School
  • Old Doune Road Nursery
  • University of Strathclyde
  • Support from the Start North Berwick Cluster
  • First 4 Kids
  • Oxfordshire Play Association
  • PLUS Forth Valley Ltd
  • Firpark Primary School
  • Auchinairn Afterschool Care & Forest School
  • Gleniffer Nursery
  • Dundee and Angus College
  • Busy Bairns Childminder
  • Tinto Nursery
  • Scottish Out of School Care Network
  • St Columba’s Junior School
  • Operation Play Outdoors
  • Tweeddale Youth Action
  • Scottish Historic Buildings Trust
  • Early Education UK
  • Rosemount Lifelong Learning
  • Child Central Training
  • South Ayrshire Council
  • St Mary’s Nursery Class
  • South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture
  • Aberdeen City Council
  • Law Primary School and North Berwick Nursery School
  • Allan’s Nursery
  • Welly Walkers Childminding
  • 3D Drumchapel
  • Youth Scotland
  • Pilton Youth and Children’s Project
  • Little Acorns
  • St Gerard’s Nursery School
  • Burnbrae Primary School
  • Renfrewshire Council
  • Woodland Outdoor Kindergartens
  • Inspiring Scotland
  • Children’s Health Scotland
  • Laura’s Little Treasures
  • The Creativity Portal
  • Playland
  • Tingwall Primary School
  • St Margaret’s Primary School
  • Linnvale Primary
  • Home-Start East Fife
  • The Yard
  • Muirhouse Youth Development Group
  • Creative STAR
  • Getting Better Together
  • Healthy n Happy CDT
  • PEEK Project
  • Angus Council
  • Bikeability
  • Holy Corner Community Group
  • Boomerang Community Centre
  • Kids Come First
  • Riverside Primary School
  • Flowerbank Early Childhood Centre
  • Home-Start Kincardine
  • RHC NHS GGC
  • Borestone Primary School
  • St John’s RC Primary
  • Maddiston Primary School
  • Argyll & Bute Council
  • Impact Arts
  • Tinies
  • The Wee Childcare Company Ltd
  • St Leonard’s Primary and Nursery School
  • C.O.J.A.C. Caring Operations Joint Action Council
  • Cairnsmoir Connections
  • Child’s Play Nursery
  • Echline Primary School and Nursery Class
  • ASH Scotland
  • Tweedbank Early Learners
  • Early Steps Nursery
  • Cornerstone Nursery
  • Dalmilling Primary School
  • Holy Cross Nursery Class
  • Seahorse Nursery
  • Simply Play
  • Parenting Across Scotland
  • PlayBoard NI
  • Meadowburn Primary School
  • Play Midlothian
  • Orkney Library and Archive
  • City of Play
  • Culture & Leisure
  • North Edinburgh Childcare
  • Craigton Primary School
  • Scalloway Pre-School
  • Childcare in the Community
  • Carli’s Kindergarten
  • East End Empowering Stars
  • East Dunbartonshire Council
  • Access Parkour Ltd
  • Little Steps Childminding
  • SPELL
  • Flowerpots Childcare
  • Cockburnspath Primary School
  • St Ninians Nursery
  • Stirling ELC
  • Adelaides Nursery
  • Holy Cross Primary School
  • Gylemuir After School Club
  • WHALE Arts
  • Fountainhall Nursery
  • Knightswood Primary
  • Evanton Wood Community Company
  • Scaraway Nursery School
  • Licketyspit
  • Falkirk Council
  • East Lothian Play Association
  • Beech House Nursery
  • Enchanted Forest Nursery
  • NHS GGC Children and Families
  • Crieff Hydro Kids Club
  • Tiptoe’s Children’s Nursery
  • Outlet Play Resource
  • Scamps SOSC
  • Allsorts Dornoch
  • Edzell Nursery
  • Interactive Play Scotland
  • University of Dundee
  • Heathfield Primary & Early Years Centre
  • Bridge of Weir Childcare
  • Parent Action for Safe Play
  • Scalloway Youth & Community Centre
  • Biggar Primary School and Nursery
  • What’s on Inverbervie Community
  • Our Place Our Families
  • Simpson Primary School & Nursery Class
  • Cardonald Primary School
  • Ark Out of School Care
  • South Morningside Primary School and Nursery
  • Kinneil Primary School and Early Years Campus
  • Maxwellton Park Nursery & OSC
  • Whiteinch Centre
  • South Lanarkshire College
  • Emerald Maintenance
  • Off Grid Kids
  • Iona Primary Early Years
  • Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
  • Timberplay Scotland Ltd
  • Maggie’s Childminding Service
  • MACS After School Care
  • Linthaugh Nursery School
  • Edible Estates
  • The Concrete Garden
  • Enable Scotland
  • Udston Primary School
  • Gullane After School Club
  • Pencaitland Primary School Parent Council
  • TIGERS
  • Castleton Primary School
  • Edinburgh College
  • Little Forest Friends Scotland
  • St Peter’s RC Primary School
  • Langlee Support Centre, Langlee Primary School
  • Parsons Green Primary
  • Shetland Islands Council
  • Angus Alive
  • Balmore Kindergarten Ltd
  • St Ninian’s Primary School
  • East Ayrshire Council
  • Inverbrothock OOSC
  • Play and Sports Limited
  • Aberlour Childcare Trust
  • Wardie Primary School
  • Abbey Early Years Centre
  • KO-NEKT (Childcare)
  • Prestonpans ASC
  • North Ayrshire Council
  • Stepping Stones North
  • Crossmichael Primary School
  • Mud Pie
  • Mid Calder Primary School
  • Wellgreen Nursery, Stirling
  • Goodlyburn Primary School
  • Hanover Street School
  • Thornlie Primary School
  • Red Harbour Events
  • North United Communities
  • Meiklewood Nursery and After School Care
  • Battlefield Primary ASC Association (BPASCA)
  • Beatlie Primary School
  • Together – Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights
  • Firsthand Lothian
  • Lanarkshire Childcare Services
  • Eastmuir Primary School
  • Gingerbread
  • Toybox Children’s Centre
  • Clydesdale After School Care
  • Bòrd na Gàidhlig
  • Glasgow Life
  • Kidzcare
  • Jordanhill School
  • Midlothian Sure Start
  • Milltimber Playgroup
  • The Cottage Family Centre
  • Hayburn Park Association
  • Bonding with Baby
  • Step by Step Nursery
  • Tarves Primary School
  • Forgandenny Primary School
  • International Play Association Scotland
  • Glenbervie Kindergarden
  • Support for Families
  • Adoption UK
  • Oxley Park Academy
  • St Peter’s Primary School
  • Oxgangs Primary School
  • Support from the Start Prestonpans Cluster
  • Doune Nursery
  • Corstorphine Primary School
  • Shetland College UHI
  • Melrose Primary School
  • Sgoil Bhaile a’ Mhanaich, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
  • The Green Team
  • LINKES
  • Support, Help and Integration in Perthshire
  • West College Scotland
  • Lauriston Nursery
  • Professional Learning Academy
  • Fusion Childcare Services
  • Murrayburn Primary School
  • St Paul’s Primary School
  • Fife Childcare Services
  • Islesburgh OOSC
  • Erskine Stewart Melville School
  • Roots and Shoots Highland Learning
  • Sacred Heart Primary School
  • Greener Kirkcaldy
  • Glebelands Nursery
  • Culture NL
  • Scottish Book Trust
  • Summerston Childcare
  • St Charles’ Primary School
  • Holy Corner Community Playgroup
  • Lamlash Early Years Class
  • Family Fund Scotland
  • Dens Road Primary School
  • Four Seasons Nursery
  • Ninewells Nursery
  • OSCARS Childcare
  • Gargurnnock Play Group
  • Nurture the Play
  • The Nurture Nursery
  • Windygoul Primary School
  • The BIG Project
  • Leaps and Bounds Activities (LBA)
  • Croftamie Nursery
  • Twinkle Stars Childcare
  • Dumfries Toy Library
  • Kilbarchan AAC
  • Argyle Bridge Children’s Nursery
  • Hillwood Primary School
  • East Lothian Out of School Care Network
  • Make Mess Matter
  • Whiteness Primary School
  • Busy Bees Nursery
  • Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland
  • West Dunbartonshire Council
  • Bright Starts Nursery
  • Orchard Grove Kindergarten
  • Reidvale Adventure Play Association Limited
  • Crieff Hydro
  • Old Doune Road Nursery
  • Leaps and Bounds Nursery
  • St Denis’ Primary School
  • Smallworld Out of School Club
  • Canongate Youth
  • NHS West Dunbartonshire
  • The Scottish Parliament
  • With Kids
  • Argyll College
  • Play Torbay
  • Fledglings Childminding Service
  • Towerbank ASC
  • St Martin’s Primary School and Nursery
  • Childcare Strategy Team
  • Jordanhill Out of School Service
  • New College Lanarkshire
  • Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Holmston Out of Skool Club
  • Outdoor Cleghorn
  • Johnshaven School
  • St George’s School for Girls
  • Preschool Academy
  • Pirie Park Primary School
  • Stanmore House School – Capability Scotland
  • Mini French
  • Scottish Government
  • Home-Start Lorn
  • Earthtime for All Ltd
  • Newtown Primary School
  • Craiglockhart After School Club
  • Play Together on Pedals
  • Wallyford Primary School
  • Grange Primary School
  • Ayrshire College
  • Guildford Borough Council Playrangers
  • Park Primary School
  • The Destiny Project
  • Movement Park
  • Upstart Scotland
  • Arkleston Primary School
  • St Thomas Playgroup
  • Living Streets Scotland
  • Support from the Start Tranent Cluster
  • Families First, North Lanarkshire Council
  • CALL Scotland
  • Borders College
  • Smart Play Network
  • North Queensferry Primary
  • Edinburgh and Lothians Out of School Care Network
  • Sciennes Primary School
  • Child’s Play
  • Forest School Leader
  • Parkour UK
  • Almond Park Nursery
  • Clovenstone Primary School
  • Gap Childcare Services
  • Elphinstone Primary
  • Jennyswell Out of School Care
  • Enterprise Childcare
  • Chatelherault Nursery & ASC
  • Pentlands Activity Camps (PAC)
  • Barnardo’s APNA Project
  • East of the Sun, West of the Moon
  • Cumbernauld YMCA
  • Castlepark Primary School
  • East Pollockshields Out of School Care
  • University of the West of Scotland
  • Eyemouth Primary School
  • Lecropt Nursery and Bridge of Allan OOSC
  • St Sylvester’s Primary School
  • Aberfoyle Nursery
  • PlayBase
  • Arran High School
  • Gracemount Nursery
  • Òganan Ghlaschu
  • NHS Forth Valley
  • Starcatchers
  • Task Childcare Services
  • North Edinburgh Arts
  • Barnardo’s Scotland
  • Houston Primary School
  • Newton Nursery
  • Highland Council
  • Cookfur Nursery Class
  • Fife Play Resource, Fife Play Development Team, Fife Council
  • Rosetta Early Learners

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