Play Strategy Action 6.3 Play in the Home
A study of information, messages
and resources available to parents
and carers in Scotland for cost
effective play in the home.
Appendix A References
Organisations reviewed:
Aberdeenshire Council
Aberlour Child Care Trust
Action for Sick Children Scotland
Activity Village
Angus Council
Argyll and Bute Council
Barnardos
Bookbug
Bounce Higher
British Association of Play therapists
Canongate Youth Project
Capability Scotland
CAPT
Care and Learning Alliance
Change 4 Life
Childcare@home
Children Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT)
Children in Scotland
Children's 1st
City of Aberdeen Council
City of Edinburgh Council
Clackmannanshire Council
Creative Star Learning
Dad's Rocks
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Dundee City Government
East Ayrshire Council
East Dunbartonshire Council
East Lothian Council
East Renfrewshire Council
Edinburgh Under 5's
Enable Scotland
Falkirk Council
Family and Care Trust
Family Lives
familyfun.co.uk
Fatherhood Institure
Fields in Trust
Fife Council
FLIP
Forrestry Commission
Gaelic4Parents
Gingerbread
Glasgow Council
Glasgow Life (Glasgow Council)
Greenspace Scotland
Grounds for Learning
Grounds for Learning/Learning through Landscapes
Highland Council
Highland Toy Mobile Library
Home Start Clackmannanshire
Homestart
Inspiring Scotland
International Play Association
Inverclyde Council
Jeely Piece Club
Kirkton Toy Library
Living Streets
Lothian Autisic Society Midlothian Council
Midlothian Play Association
Moray Council
Mud Pies
Na h-Eileanan Siar Council
National Association of Toy Libraries
National Association of Toys
National Playbus Association
National Trust
Netmums
NHS Health Scotland NHS Scotland
NHS West Lothian North Ayrshire Council
North Lanarkshire Council
One Parent Families Scotland
Orkney Council
Parent Network Scotland
ParentChannelTV
Parenting Across Scotland
Parenting UK
Parenting West Lothian
Parentline Scotland
Parents Action for safe play
PEEP
Perth And Kinross Council
Perth Toy Library
Planet Science
Play Alloa Play
Borders Play
Busters Play Day
Play England, Play Wales, Play Scotland and PlayBoard Northern Ireland
Play on Wheels
Play Plus Edinburgh
Play Scotland
Play Talk Read
Possibility for Each and Every Kid
Primary Times
Ready Steady Baby
Ready Steady Toddler
Relationships Scotland
Renfrewshire Council
Save the Children
Scottish Adoption
Scottish Book Trust
Scottish Borders Council
Scottish Childminding Associaton
Scottish Family Information Service
Scottish Government
Scottish Pre-school Play Association
Sense Scotland
Set4Sport
Shetland Islands Council Shetland Pre School Play Sign Post
SKETCH (Support for Kids through Education, Toys & Childminders)
Sketch Toy Libraries
Smart Play Network
SNIP
South Ayrshire Council
South Lanarkshire Council Stirling Council
Sure Start
The Scottish Government
The Yard
West Dunbartonshire Council
West Lothian Council
Westerlea Early Years Service (Capability Scotland)
Women's Aid
Young Scot
Young Scot WOW!
Youth Scotland
Youthlink
YWCA
Contextual Resources:
Research Review: Promoting Safe Play and "Hanging Out" - Nick Jenkins, Policy, Research and Influencing Unit, Barnardos. September 2002.
The Children's Right to Play by Stuart Lester and Wendy Russell - The Bernard van Leer Foundation December 2010 - ISBN 978-90-6195-121-6
The Scottish Government Topics: Statistics: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/
Play Strategy For Scotland: Our Vision - The Scottish Government - ISBN 978-1-78256-615-1
Qualitative evaluation of play@home, March 2012 - Julie Amers and Anita MacGregor, Leithal Thinking
Community Play Project October, 2008 - September, 2010: End of Project Report - Action for Sick Children
Children 1st report to the Scottish Government: Mapping Current sources of national information and advice and how this is delivered to parents and carers across Scotland, November 2013
Glasgow Life Strategy For Play 2011-2014 http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/news/Pages/Play-For-Real---Glasgow's-Play-Strategy-2011-2014.aspx
http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/200433/support_from_the_start/1579/play_and_early_learning
An overview of family make-up, including cohabitation, marriage, divorce, stepfamilies, lone parent families, teenage parents, first-time mothers, adoption and children in care, http://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/policy--research/facts-about-families-in-scotland.aspx
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/where-we-work/united-kingdom/scotland
Types of Play
Here are the definitions types of play that were used within this study:
| Symbolic Play: |
play which allows control, gradual exploration and increased understanding without the risk of being out of one's depth. |
|---|---|
| Rough and Tumble Play: |
close encounter play which is less to do with fighting and more to do with touching, tickling, and gauging relative strength. Discovering physical flexibility and the exhilaration of display. |
| Socio-dramatic Play: |
the enactment of real and potential experiences of an intense personal, social, domestic or interpersonal nature. |
| Social Play: |
play during which the rules and criteria for social engagement and interaction can be revealed, explored and amended. |
| Creative Play: |
play which allows a new response, the transformation of information, awareness of new connections, with an element of surprise. |
| Communication Play: |
play using words, nuances or gestures for example, mime, jokes, play acting, mickey taking, singing, debate, poetry. |
| Dramatic Play: |
play which dramatizes events in which the child is not a direct participator. |
| Deep Play: |
play which allows the child to encounter risky or even potentially life threatening experiences, to develop survival skills and conquer fear. |
| Exploratory Play: |
play to access factual information consisting of manipulative behaviours such as handling, throwing, banging or mouthing objects. |
| Fantasy Play: |
play which rearranges the world in the child's way, a way which is unlikely to occur. |
| Imaginative Play: |
play where the conventional rules, which govern the physical world, do not apply. |
| Locomotor Play: |
movement in any or every direction for its own sake. |
| Mastery Play: |
control of the physical and affective ingredients of the environments. |
| Object Play: |
play which uses infinite and interesting sequences of hand-eye manipulations and movements. |
| Role Play: |
play exploring ways of being, although not normally of an intense personal, social, domestic or interpersonal nature. |
| Recapitulative Play: |
play that allows the child to explore ancestry, history, rituals, stories, rhymes, fire and darkness. Enables children to access play of earlier human evolutionary stages. |
Our vision: We want Scotland to be the best place to grow up. A nation which values play as a life-enhancing daily experience for all our children and young people.
Principles
- We should value all children and young people
- We should enable all children and young people to realise their right to play
- All children and young people should have sufficient space and time to play
Domains:
Play Strategy for Scotland:
Our Action Plan sets out actions that take us forward in realising the vision for play.
Contact
Email: Dave Gorman
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