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Tag: risky play

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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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

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

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