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Author: Sammy Wyeth

National Children’s Day UK 2021

30 April 2021

Sunday 16th May National Children’s Day UK (NCDUK) is all about the importance of…

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Tesco Community Grants open now for applications

29 April 2021

Get your application in now! Tesco Community Grants will award funding to charities…

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Enhanced summer offer for all children

6 April 2021

A national “summer of play” to provide access to activities. Funding of £20…

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20 minute neighbourhoods in a Scottish context

23 March 2021

’20 minute neighbourhoods’ are places that are designed so residents can meet their day-to-day…

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Children across Scotland want more play and better play

19 March 2021

Play Scotland and Scotland’s Play Council support children and young people’s urgent call…

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Place of play

15 March 2021

Diarmaid Lawlor argues that a place for play could be built around a…

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Manifesto for Play

19 February 2021

Play Scotland are delighted to launch the Manifesto for Play.  Play is vital…

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Childminding Providers Grants

1 February 2021

Funding is being provided to support the business sustainability of Scotland’s childminding providers….

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Tim Gill’s new book Urban Playground: Sneak peek and seasonal discounted price

28 January 2021

Tim Gill’s forthcoming book Urban Playground: How child-friendly planning and design can save…

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Parliament unanimously agreed to the general principles of the UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill

21 January 2021

We are pleased to inform you that the Parliament unanimously agreed to the…

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A reminder of the significance of play in lockdown by Tom Gill

12 January 2021

It seems timely to share a post that child psychology academic Prof Helen Dodd…

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Playful Schools Practice Insights article

7 January 2021

Delighted that the Playful Schools project has been featured in Issue 17 of…

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The Association for the Study of Play Online Conference: Call for Presentation Proposals

6 January 2021

Conference Theme: Necessity of Play Date: March 20, 2021 Platforms: Zoom and CANVAS…

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The Play Council Meeting and Play Scotland AGM

17 December 2020

Please save the date! The Play Council Meeting and Play Scotland AGM will…

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Nature England Survey

10 November 2020

Social justice issues highlighted in this report from Nature England Children’s access to…

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New Playful Pedagogy Resource from Play Scotland to support everyday learning adventures across the school

21 October 2020

Playful Pedagogy is a way of integrating children’s play experiences with curricular learning, giving…

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S&SR Environment and Spaces Group Publication

13 October 2020

  The MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit of the S&SR Environment…

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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

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