Promoting Children and Young People's Right to Play in Scotland

 

Play Scotland works to promote the importance of play for all children and young people, and campaigns to create increased play opportunities in the community.

The work of Play Scotland is underpinned by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Article 31: "State parties recognise the right of every child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts"

Membership organisation and funded by the Scottish Government.

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Play Scotland Annual General Meeting

- 25 January 2012, Edinburgh

 

 

 

Play Scotland Celebrates 20 years of Article 31

To celebrate 20 years of Children's Rights in Scotland on 16 December 2011, we asked children to design a birthday card.   We were overwhelmed with over 900 entries being received, the youngest entrant only being 10 months old!

In 1991 the UK Government signed up to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.   There are 42 articles which set out Rights that Children are entitled to. 

Article 31 states that "all children have a right to relax and play, and to join in a wide range of activities"

We would like to thank everyone who entered for their fabulous drawings.

The Play Team at the Scottish Government very kindly judged the entries and we are pleased to announce that the winners are:

Age category 0-3

Winner - Brooke Norrie, Dundee

Age Category 3-4
1^st Prize - Anna Nicholson, Argyll
2^nd Prize - Emily R, Newark Nursery, Port Glasgow
3^rd Prize - Amber McLay, Bathgate

Age Category 5 -7

1^st Prize - Broomhill Out of School Care, Glasgow
2^nd Prize - Sophie Tait, Sandwick Junior High School, Shetland
3^rd Prize - Jacob Parsons, Williamston Primary School, West Lothian

Age Category 8 -12

1^st Prize -Aimee Welsh, Sunnyside Primary, Alloa   
2^nd Prize - Rhys Bidgood, Blackburn Primary School, West Lothian  
3rd Prize - Kuba Szydlowski, Blackburn Primary School, West Lothian

Team Effort to Little Learners Nursery in Oban.

We also received three fantastic poems on play from:

Lqraa Rafi (10), St Eunans Primary School, Clydebank
Samantha Laing (9), Lassswade Primary, Midlothian
Sian Moffat (6), Balbardie Primary School, Bathgate

who will receive a Play Scotland goodie bag.

Special Awards will be given to Mhairi MacKay (11), Aberdeen whose design will be used for our Getting it Right for Play Toolkit leaflet and
Robyn Anderson (11), Riverside Primary, Livingstone  whose design has been chosen for the front of our 2011 Annual Review.

A selection of the winning entries will be displayed on our website in due course and we hope to display all the entries in the Lobby of the Scottish Parliament in 2012.  Should you have any queries please let us know.

NEWS  RELEASE - New Minister for Children and Young People

It has been announced today by the Scottish Government that Angela Constance MSP will become the new Minister for Youth Employment, a newly created post.  Aileen Campbell MSP replaces Ms Constance as Minister for Children and Young People.

     For further information see: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/12/07083420  

 

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