In 2018, we brought together a broad group of academics and organisations from education, childcare, healthcare, environment and government to create Scotland’s Outdoor Play and Learning Coalition. The Coalition created a bold position statement which committed signatories to working together to embed playing and learning outdoors as an everyday activity and a fundamental part of growing up in Scotland.
The statement’s 100-plus signatories include Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, local authorities, national bodies and leading academics.
We are pleased to share the fourth impact report of the Delivering Equally Safe fund, covering the six-month period April – September 2023. It provides data on the activities, impact, and contribution to fund outcomes from 112 funded organisations. The DES fund delivers on the Scottish Government and COSLA’s Equally Safe strategy. The strategy
Read MoreThis reports on the progress of the 14:19 Fund first six months in 2016.
Read MoreEvidence from the Delivering Equally Safe (DES) funded organisations and from other studies has shown that “experiences of violence and abuse against women, young people and children can be the cause of mental ill health, and those experiences can exacerbate existing mental health issues.” A report has been pulled together looking the evidence of the
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