Date: 8th April 2024
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Recreation, play and cultural activities

Play is a fundamental right; it builds resilience, instils confidence and helps children develop. But children need time to play. That’s where we need policies, training and funding to get play integrated in education and community settings.

Date: 8th February 2024
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities, Planning and community

This research project by Silvia Veiga Seijo a PhD student at Queen Margaret University was created with children (based on children rights participation) about creating a play friendly community in Whitecraig, (East Lothian). The report was co-created by 17 children as co researchers alongside Silvia, and it is founded on children’s voices and perspectives.

Date: 8th March 2023
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Recreation, play and cultural activities, Refugee , migrant and asylum-seeking children

This short film is an uplifting story of play, children’s rights and multiculturalism in Glasgow. Licketyspit documents their latest project on how Storyplay can support integration, with over 700 children and families from different backgrounds taking part in meaningful play.

Date: 9th June 2022
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

You are invited to share your stories of childhood play with Licketyspit. In doing so, this will highlight just how well adults remember and value play in their childhoods. In turn, demonstrating the importance of play being at the centre of Scotland’s movement to embed children’s rights into law.

Date: 17th September 2021
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Licketyspit Storyplay Champion Children are a great example of how able children are to claim their rights, hold their own and represent themselves. Storyplay is a programme that makes imaginary play an easy, wonderful and inclusive part of every day. After 18-months of Porridge & Play Online (an inter-generational imaginary play session for children under 12 and their families), these children own and understand Storyplay inside-out.

Date: 20th August 2021
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Together has joined Play Scotland in warmly welcoming the announcement that £60 million will be invested in the renewal of play parks throughout Scotland. A joint letter sets out next steps to ensure the investment makes a real difference.

Date: 28th May 2021
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Together supports Thrive Outdoors’s position statement expressing the value of outdoor play and learning on children and young people’s health and wellbeing.

Date: 23rd April 2021
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Twenty-one families from LicketySpit’s Children and Families Network have shared their thoughts, feelings, ideas and experiences of different issues that affect them, through group play. Topics discussed include perceptions of COVID-19 restrictions, racism and discrimination, experience of the asylum system and more.

Date: 9th December 2020
Category: Education, including vocational education, COVID-19, Recreation, play and cultural activities

This autumn, Connect ran a survey asking parents and carers how being back at school or in nursery was going. It received 527 responses from across 29 local authorities.

Date: 19th November 2020
Category: Social security, Mental health, Child poverty, Health and health services, COVID-19, Recreation, play and cultural activities, Family Environment and Alternative Care

COVID-19 has exacerbated the precariousness of many care leavers’ situations, and amplified the inconsistencies that exist in relation to support and services. This briefing highlights some of the key issues alongside several recommendations. 

Date: 27th October 2020
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Starcatchers’ annual report outlines what projects and activities it held over the past year to ensure all nought to five-year olds through innovative arts and cultural experiences are inspired.

Date: 10th July 2020
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Scottish Government has made several changes to allow more social interaction for children. These include changes announced by the First Minister on 2nd July, with further changes announced on 9th July.

Date: 25th June 2020
Category: Education, including vocational education, Recreation, play and cultural activities

Scotland’s AI Strategy wants to include children and young people’s visions of the use of artificial intelligence in Scotland and to create better awareness of what artificial intelligence is. To do this, it has created fun activity learning and quizzes, which upon completion YoungScot are offering 50 reward points.

Date: 28th May 2020
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Play Scotland is asking all organisations in the play sector to share their play and family-based resources which would help parents and families during this time.

Date: 21st August 2019
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities, Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Respect for the views of the child

The campaign aims to celebrate and raise awareness of how the arts and creative experiences can help babies and young children learn about their rights.

Date: 30th July 2019
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

Street Play is an initiative that allows communities to close local roads free-of-charge so that children can play safely outside and close to their homes.

Date: 30th July 2019
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

The September 2019 trial will see vehicles banned from roads surrounding six schools at the beginning and end of the school day.

Date: 15th July 2019
Category: Protection of privacy, Access to appropriate information, Education, including vocational education, Recreation, play and cultural activities

A global consultation with children is taking place for the upcoming General Comment on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment.

Date: 25th April 2019
Category: Recreation, play and cultural activities

To celebrate the “30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child“, the Austrian Chancellery, Section V, Department for Families and Children´s Rights in cooperation with the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and UNICEF Austria is organizing the International Composition Contest "Sounds of Childrens' Rights". Deadline for entry is 15th July 2019.

Date: 18th April 2019
Category: Mental health, Access to appropriate information, Equal protection from violence, Civil Rights and Freedoms, Protection of privacy, Recreation, play and cultural activities, Best interests of the child

The Information Commissioner has launched a draft of the Age Appropriate Design Code for consultation. The Commissioner has dubbed the code as “a new deal between children and the tech sector.