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Play in Healthcare

30 March 2026

As our wonderful colleague Alex prepares to run the London Marathon for Starlight…

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Where do the Children Play?

24 March 2026

“As a child, connection to the outdoors and being able to run around…

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Why Play belongs in Trauma Informed Practice

9 February 2026

  Erin is a play therapist and lecturer based in Scotland with a…

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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

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

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