Minister for childcare and early years, Maree Todd has pledged to to raise the number of hours nursery children spend outdoors.
The aim is to to make playing outside in nature part of the way children in Scotland learn and develop from an early age.
Anti-poverty organisation Inspiring Scotland will receive the £862,550 of Government money to encourage and support greater use of outdoor learning in the early years.
Inspiring Scotland will use the funding to:
Ms Todd said, ‘The significant expansion of funded early learning and childcare gives us the perfect opportunity to define the type of experience we want to offer our children during their early years. That is why we are committing more than £860,000 to increase the use of outdoor learning, to ensure it becomes a defining feature of childhood in Scotland.’
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