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Category: Articles

Win an early years Play Library – free competition for all Scottish primaries

17 June 2022

We’re delighted to share that we are working in partnership with Boromi as…

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IPA Conference Glasgow 2023

International Play Conference in Glasgow!

15 June 2022

The International Play Association Conference will be held in Glasgow from Tuesday 6th to Friday 9th June 2023.

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Out on bikes with Grampy Book Launch

10 June 2022

Play Scotland, Cycling UK in Scotland and Cycling Scotland have teamed up to create an exciting…

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New: Podcast – Play & Austism

1 June 2022

We have just published our 10th podcast episode! In this episode, we will…

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Children, Play & Place: Meaningful engagement with children & young people

18 May 2022

Do you believe that involving children and young people in decision making is…

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Introductions to the Play Types – Training Event

27 April 2022

What are the play types and how can you use them to inform…

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Introduction to Outdoor Classroom Day – Training Event

27 April 2022

Join Play Scotland for an ‘Introduction to Outdoor Classroom Day’ for practical tips…

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Intergenerational Play and Storytelling Toolkit Launch & Training

13 April 2022

Friday 29th April 2022, 10:00am – 12:00pm Zoom Join Generations Working Together and…

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New: Podcast – Partnership Working for Play

31 March 2022

We have just published our 8th Play Well podcast episode! In this episode,…

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Parents and Carers We Need You!

16 March 2022

Parents & carers we need you!   The Scottish Government is consulting on…

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Shetland Play Van Success

16 March 2022

Thanks to Get into Summer Funding from the Scottish Government we were able to…

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Creating a Children and Young People response to the NPF4 Consultation

1 March 2022

We want to support you to ensure that the children and young people that you work with are empowered to share their thoughts on these topics.  Our facilitator’s pack will guide you through the process of running one engagement session that will allow you to respond to both consultations.

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School-aged childcare consultation

31 January 2022

FCSS is working with Scottish Government to better understand the supply and demand…

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Play Sufficiency Assessment Consultations

13 January 2022

It is vital that the voice of children and young people is heard…

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Consultation on the new national planning framework

13 January 2022

Play Scotland and A Place in Childhood are hosting three seminars on the…

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Intergenerational Play and Storytelling

6 December 2021

Play Scotland and Generations Working Together are currently looking for case studies of…

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Children’s Alliance job opportunity

5 November 2021

Head of Children’s Alliance Children’s Alliance has announced that they are looking for…

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The Children’s Alliance Report on the Health & Wellbeing of Children in the Early Years

3 November 2021

Covid-19 has uncovered entrenched health inequalities; hobbling UK children even prior to birth…

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October Update

28 October 2021

Welcome to our October updates blog! If you would like to receive our…

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September Updates

9 September 2021

Welcome to our September updates blog! If you would like to receive our…

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Moths to a Flame Art Workshop for COP26

7 July 2021

We are very excited to be delivering Moths to a Flame workshops for…

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Parks for People: why should we invest in parks?

29 June 2021

Evidence from the Parks for People programme and six case studies uncovers the…

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We are hiring Digital Membership & Services Officer £27,828 pro-rata 20 hours per week

Play Scotland Digital Membership and Services Officer

25 June 2021

Come and work with us!  Play Scotland are recruiting a Digital Membership and…

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Glasgow chosen as host city for 2023 International Play Association World Congress

8 June 2021

The International Play Association (IPA) has chosen Glasgow as the location of its…

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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

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

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