Henry is a leading advocate of children benefiting from outdoor play and looking after our natural environment. As a senior manager with the Care Inspectorate, he helped the regulator embrace the positives of adventurous play for children attending registered services. This included producing influential publications for the early learning and childcare sector, such as ‘My World Outdoors’ and ‘Gender Equal Play’. Henry has also authored standards on behalf of Scottish Government, including the Health and Social Care Standards.
Henry is interested in realising the magical power of outdoor play. Before joining the national inspectorate, Henry was an early learning and childcare provider and welcomes the opportunity to return closer to practice in his role wiht Thrive Outdoors. He is registered with the SSSC as a qualified Social Worker and is on the Board of the International Play Association Scotland. In his spare time Henry also chairs Tranent Wombles, a local community litterpicking and environmental group.
Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service
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We recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive. The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children” Since 2016, Inspiring
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Earlier this month, some of the Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to
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