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Author: Sophie Arnold

Play Scotland’s response to the Human Rights Bill Consultation

11 October 2023

Play Scotland has published a response to the Human Rights Bill Consultation of…

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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

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