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#Chances4Children: Nurseries to be supported by £1m project to promote play

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A charity has launched a £1m initiative to promote the importance of play in early childhood and link nurseries with education experts across the world.
The fund will promote the importance of play. Picture: The Froebel Trust
The fund will promote the importance of play. Picture: The Froebel Trust

The money has been made available from the Froebel Trust, which promotes creative forms of play, involving nature and other outdoor activities.

The funding is to be handed to two project teams, who will promote creative play and carry out research over three years.

One involves academics and councils across Scotland, who will work in collaboration with early years sector experts in the Czech Republic and Greece to develop leadership around creative play.

“We are particularly interested in the entanglement and complexity of children’s lives, believing that diversity matters,” said the University of Edinburgh’s Lynne McNair, who is leading the Scottish project.

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