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      • Play Types Toolkit
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      • The Playwork Principles
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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

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

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