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Author: Zoe Sills

The importance of risk in childhood play experiences

7 August 2024

Ask any group of adults about their most stand-out play memories and two…

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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

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