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Children’s Right to Play in Scots law

17 January 2024

On the 16th January Children’s Right to Play was incorporated into Scots law….

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“Let’s Talk About Play!” Free Members’ Event

7 April 2022

  At Play Scotland, we love to talk about play! And, we want…

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Why can’t children play with other children?

25 March 2020

Reports from overseas suggest they wished they had followed guidance earlier.  Please note…

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Play in the time of coronavirus

25 March 2020

Tim Gill and Penny Wilson share some thoughts and ideas on supporting children’s…

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Playing through the Coronavirus Pandemic

20 March 2020

“Playing through difficult issues helps children come to terms with stuff that’s out…

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Outdoor learning has huge benefits for children and teachers — so why isn’t it used in more schools?

10 June 2019

Research shows that healthier and happier children do better in school, and that education…

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4 Nations Play Symposium Report 2016

14 October 2016

Earlier this year Northern Ireland hosted the biennial 4 Nations Play Symposium at…

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Delivering on the Attainment Challenge through Play Seminar

12 October 2016

Book your space before 14th October and get this CPD Seminar for an…

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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Guide for Children & Young People

29 October 2015

The UNCRC Booklet is aimed at children and young people under the age…

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Training for Trainers in an Introduction to Playwork Course

8 May 2015

Please see training information below. Play Scotland have been asked by Playwork Partnerships…

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Motion S4M-08099 has been placed at the Scottish Parliament by Aileen Campbell MSP, Minister for Children and Young People.

30 October 2013

That the Parliament welcomes the action plan, Play Strategy for Scotland: Our Vision,…

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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

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

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