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professionals from across sectors who are developing and delivering services and policies that will improve the quality of life for Scotland's children, young people and their families. Our goal is to help Scotland become an even better nation in which to be a child and raise children. All of our publications and resources are published with this overarching goal in mind.

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Learning through outdoor play

Children in Scotland resource pack (£10)

Developing opportunities for outdoor learning and play are explicit priorities in both the Early Years Framework and Curriculum for Excellence and the benefits of outdoor activities - physical and mental wellbeing - fit with the aspirations of Getting it Right for Every Child. This pack incorporates a set of publications and magazine articles focusing on outdoor play.

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Empowering children, families and the workforce? The competency debate

Focuses on competences, from the perspective of all parties – including children. It seeks to present competences not as a set of skills to be measured but as the foundation for universal educator competence that will allow every child a better chance to realise their own potential.

Price: £8 /members £6.75

Playing outside: Why does it matter?	Young children in charge	Siyabonana: we all see each other
Examines the use of outside space across the EU and considers the benefits that unstructured play and the natural enviornment offer to young children.	Based on a study visit to San Miniato in Italy. The ideas within this best-selling book are particularly relevant to implementation of Scotland's pre-birth to three guidance and the early stages of Curriculum for Excellence. .	Early childhood experiences in South Africa are very different from the UK, but this vivid snapshot of early childhood development services holds useful lessons for practitioners and policy makers here.
Inclusives services pack (£12)	Adventures in nature	Northern Lights: building better childhoods in Norway
A set of resources to support the delivery of inclusive services. Delivering services which promote opportunities and value diversity is an important aspiration in Getting it Right for Every Child. And legislation such as the Equality Act 2010 will require services to promote equality in a number of different ways.	Focuses on a fascinating and inspirational project that uses the local natural envirnoment to develop young children's sense of independence, confidence and self-esteem, with all inter-related skills of communication and cooperation.	Insight into the development and delivery of childhood services in a country where levels of child well-being are among the best in Europe.

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