Skip to the content
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • Podcast
Play Scotland
Delivering and celebrating children and young people’s right to play
Donate
Contact
  • Home
  • About
    • What We Do
      • Past Projects
    • What is Play
      • Play Types
    • The Power of Play
    • Resources
      • Climate & Environment
      • Education & Learning
      • Health & Wellbeing
      • Inclusion & Rights
      • Play Activities
      • Play Strategy
      • Playwork & the Play Sector
      • Space, Place & Planning
    • Board & Team
    • Values & Policy
    • Membership
      • Scotland’s Play Charter
    • Donate
  • Parents & Families
    • Play Ideas
      • The Play Well Packs
      • Boredom Busters
      • Games on the Go
      • Active Play
      • Messy & Creative Play
      • Water Play
      • Play Packs
      • #101waystoplay campaign
    • Stay Safe
  • Schools & Childcare
    • Schools
      • Play Types Toolkit
      • Active Uniform Alliance: Made to Move
    • Playwork
      • The Playwork Principles
    • Play Pedagogy
    • Play Pedagogy Award
    • Outdoor Play and Learning – OPAL
    • Early Learning and Childcare
    • Writing a Play Policy
    • Managing Risk
    • Loose Parts Play
    • Training & Events
    • The Play Well Podcast
  • Places for Play
    • Playday 2026
    • Organising Community Play
    • People, Places and Play
    • Play Sufficiency Assessments
    • Inclusive Play Design
    • Smoke Free Play
  • Policy
    • Scotland’s Play Strategy
    • The Right to Play
    • Policy Landscape
    • Legal Duty for Play Sufficiency in Planning
    • Policy Groups
  • News
  • Home
  • About
    • What We Do
      • Past Projects
    • What is Play
      • Play Types
    • The Power of Play
    • Resources
      • Climate & Environment
      • Education & Learning
      • Health & Wellbeing
      • Inclusion & Rights
      • Play Activities
      • Play Strategy
      • Playwork & the Play Sector
      • Space, Place & Planning
    • Board & Team
    • Values & Policy
    • Membership
      • Scotland’s Play Charter
        • Pledges to Scotland’s Play Charter
    • Donate
  • Parents & Families
    • Play Ideas
      • The Play Well Packs
      • Boredom Busters
      • Games on the Go
      • Active Play
      • Messy & Creative Play
      • Water Play
      • Play Packs
      • #101waystoplay campaign
    • Stay Safe
  • Schools & Childcare
    • Schools
      • Play Types Toolkit
      • Active Uniform Alliance: Made to Move
    • Playwork
      • The Playwork Principles
    • Play Pedagogy
    • Play Pedagogy Award
    • Outdoor Play and Learning – OPAL
    • Early Learning and Childcare
    • Writing a Play Policy
    • Managing Risk
    • Loose Parts Play
    • Training & Events
    • The Play Well Podcast
  • Places for Play
    • Playday 2026
    • Organising Community Play
    • People, Places and Play
    • Play Sufficiency Assessments
    • Inclusive Play Design
    • Smoke Free Play
  • Policy
    • Scotland’s Play Strategy
    • The Right to Play
    • Policy Landscape
    • Legal Duty for Play Sufficiency in Planning
    • Policy Groups
  • News

Tag: Scottish Government 0 items

Latest:

  • Digital Play: Toy Story 5
    19 June 2026
    Woody and Buzz have a new quest: to wrestle with read more »
  • Listening properly to children about play: reflections on the new ‘Talking Mats’ resource
    26 May 2026
    What happens when we genuinely listen to children read more »
  • Playday 2026 Theme Launch
    14 May 2026
    Join us on 5th August to celebrate Playday! read more »

Resource Library:

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.

Read more »

Pledges to Scotland’s Play Charter

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

Play Scotland
4th Floor Hopetoun Gate
8B McDonald Road
Edinburgh
EH7 4LZ

info@playscotland.org

Play Scotland is a registered charity
Company Number: SC197785
Scottish Charity Number: SC029167

  • Sitemap
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies

Newsletter

Become a free member of Play Scotland and receive our newsletter

Contact

Get in touch, click here for our contact form

Charter

Find out more about Scotland’s Play Charter

Donate

Support the child’s right to play by making a donation to Play Scotland

© 2026 Play Scotland | website by clooti