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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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My day as a playworker – Gavin Bell

15 May 2024

I have been a playworker for over 20 years, gaining new play experiences…

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The Humble Cardboard Box, By Alex Wallis

21 November 2023

  December: the month of the year when homes and businesses across the…

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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

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

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