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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

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

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