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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

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

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