Category: News
Parents’ anxieties keep children playing indoors: Fears about traffic and strangers leading to ‘creeping disappearance’ of youngsters from parks
7 August 2013
Over-protective parents prevent children from experiencing the rough and tumble of outdoor play….
Read more »Playday 2013
7 August 2013
Intolerant attitudes and a lack of dedicated community spaces are preventing children from…
Read more »Fear of intolerance ‘stops children playing out’
7 August 2013
Fear of upsetting the neighbours is preventing many parents letting their children play…
Read more »Children Are Disappearing From Britain’s Street As Parents Keep Kids Indoors
7 August 2013
Children are “disappearing from our streets”, charities have warned after a poll found…
Read more »Unfriendly communities stop children playing outdoors
7 August 2013
Unfriendly communities and “intolerant neighbours” prevent children from playing outdoors, a survey has…
Read more »How Much Outdoor Time Do Kids Really Need
22 July 2013
The influx of electronic entertainment that seems to be taking over the modern…
Read more »Don’t wrap kids in cotton wool, The Scotsman
22 July 2013
There are many things we remember from childhood that are often recalled with…
Read more »Children should play hopscotch to boost self esteem, psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos claims
9 July 2013
Children should return to playing old fashioned games like hopscotch to stop them…
Read more »Under-fives need more time to play, say carers as they warn of ‘schoolification’ of children’s early years
9 July 2013
The “schoolification” of early years education is leaving under-fives without enough time to…
Read more »Late nights ‘sap children’s brain power’
9 July 2013
Late nights and lax bedtime routines can blunt young children’s minds, research from…
Read more »Play for Life, Play Scotland Annual Conference
5 July 2013
24 September 2013 Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, Grosvenor Street, Edinburgh Play Scotland’s annual conference…
Read more »Creating Places – A policy statement on architecture and place for Scotland.
4 July 2013
We are delighted that play is mentioned in Health and Landscapes in this…
Read more »Free trees for school, community and youth groups
4 July 2013
Woodland Trust have 4000 free tree packs to give away to school, community and youth…
Read more »British children’s junk food are diets ‘worse than rationing’ and to blame for the return of wartime diseases like scurvy and rickets
3 July 2013
British children are suffering from wartime diseases because their junk food diets are…
Read more »‘Ban school run and make pupils walk’: Britain’s new public health chief’s bid to battle childhood obesity
3 July 2013
The school run should be banned in a bid to battle childhood obesity,…
Read more »Kids aged 3 are treated in hospital for obesity
1 July 2013
Children as young as three are receiving hospital treatment on the NHS for…
Read more »Having messy fun with CBeebies
1 July 2013
Play Scotland was one of the partner organisations at CBeebies Mr Bloom,’s Big…
Read more »FREE Membership to Play Scotland
27 June 2013
Join Play Scotland today, for free, and support us in our work to…
Read more »Play Strategy for Scotland
25 June 2013
Think about your favourite Play memories, where were your favourite places to play…
Read more »Play Strategy for Scotland
24 June 2013
The Scottish Government has launched Scotland’s first ever Play Strategy http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0042/00425722.pdf
Read more »Could children diagnosed with ADHD just need better sleep? More youngsters than ever are prescribed drugs for hyperactivity
18 June 2013
More children – and adults – than ever are being diagnosed with Attention…
Read more »Children’s phones blamed for increase in deaths on roads: Sharp increase of youngsters ‘distracted’ by texts and tweets
18 June 2013
A boom in smartphone use is being blamed for an alarming rise in…
Read more »Children still being targeted by junk food adverts as companies find a way to sidestep the rules
18 June 2013
Junk food manufacturers are still bypassing rules on advertising unhealthy products to children…
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