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Free to Play: A guide to creating accessible and inclusive public play spaces - Inspiring Scotland

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Free to Play: A guide to creating accessible and inclusive public play spaces

Free to Play: A guide to creating accessible and inclusive public play spaces is designed to ensure that all children and young people, including those with additional support needs, can exercise their right to play in their local communities.

Written by play, children’s rights and inclusive play space experts, Theresa Casey and Harry Harbottle, the guide has been produced by Inspiring Scotland, Play Scotland and the Nancy Ovens Trust in support of the Play Strategy for Scotland.

Together, we are passionate about children’s right to play and the huge benefits having accessible play outdoor play space can have on children’s development.

18.05.2017

“It’s safer outdoors than in indoors.”

Dr. Mark Tremblay of Canada’s HALO Research talks to Prof. John Reilly of the University of Strathclyde and Rachel Cowper of Inspiring Scotland about how, counter to to popular belief, it is safer for children to be outdoors than indoors. This video is part of a series on the health crisis faced by young children

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28.05.2020

Practitioner Tips #1

Part of Thrive Outdoors Make Time For Outdoor Play – a downloadable series of resources developed to support outdoor play during COVID-19.

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26.04.2021

Webinar 4-Applying to Delivering Equally Safe as a partnership

This webinar has been designed to support those who are applying to Delivering Equally Safe as a partnership. This webinar is part of a series designed to support you as you develop your application to the fund Transcript Slide 1: Welcome Hi and welcome to this webinar – where we will discuss applying to Delivering

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