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Tag: NOS

2024/25 Review of the National Occupational Standards for Playwork (NOS)

17 June 2024

We are pleased to announce that the UK Playwork NOS Consortium has been…

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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

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

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