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Author: Web Editor

4 Nations Play Symposium Report 2016

14 October 2016

Earlier this year Northern Ireland hosted the biennial 4 Nations Play Symposium at…

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Delivering on the Attainment Challenge through Play Seminar

12 October 2016

Book your space before 14th October and get this CPD Seminar for an…

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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Guide for Children & Young People

29 October 2015

The UNCRC Booklet is aimed at children and young people under the age…

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Training for Trainers in an Introduction to Playwork Course

8 May 2015

Please see training information below. Play Scotland have been asked by Playwork Partnerships…

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UK Play Policy Forum launches ‘4 Asks for Play’

19 March 2015

NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BODY CALLS FOR ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO INVEST IN COST-EFFECTIVE SUPPORT…

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Hugh Dennis launches National Trust campaign to get children playing outdoors

1 August 2014

Today’s generation of children aged 7 to 12 spend less time playing outside…

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Children and Young People Bill passed

20 February 2014

Reforms will help Scotland become ‘the best place in the world to grow…

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Judith Hackitt, Chair, HSE supports adventurous play

28 January 2014

Up for the ride It was encouraging to see London Mayor Boris Johnson…

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Thoughts on the Play Strategy Action Plan by Megan from Rain-shine

7 January 2014

Play Strategies and Play Action Plans are government sponsored initiatives designed to encourage…

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Playing and learning Blog from Judith Hackitt, Chair HSE

5 November 2013

This week I had the pleasure of attending the House of Commons to…

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Motion S4M-08099 has been placed at the Scottish Parliament by Aileen Campbell MSP, Minister for Children and Young People.

30 October 2013

That the Parliament welcomes the action plan, Play Strategy for Scotland: Our Vision,…

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Managing Risk in Play Provision Launch

28 October 2013

The launch of the Managing Risk in Play Provision Guidance will take place…

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Project Wild Thing

25 October 2013

Please see link for blog on Project Wildthing on Netmums web Link

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Are you Going to Join The Playtime Revolution?

23 October 2013

Many children and young people only get out to play when they are…

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Planning for Play

25 September 2013

An exciting new CPD (level 8) award is now available to help communities…

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Play for Life, Play Scotland Annual Conference

5 July 2013

24 September 2013 Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, Grosvenor Street, Edinburgh Play Scotland’s annual conference…

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Play Strategy for Scotland

25 June 2013

Think about your favourite Play memories, where were your favourite places to play…

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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

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

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