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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

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

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