Outdoor learning, exercise and play are highlighted in the Scottish government’s action plan for early learning and childcare.
From next month, it will publish guidance for all early learning and childcare (ELC) settings, which it says ‘will promote well-designed outdoor space in all new-built and refurbished or extended settings created as part of [this] expansion’ [to almost double the free entitlement to 1,240 hours a year by 2020].
Ministers want to build on the commitment to a minimum of one hour a week outdoors by encouraging all providers to have access to ‘a stimulating outdoor play area for children’, including daily opportunities to be outdoors. For full-time children, part of their day should be spent outdoors.
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