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RT @UpstartScot: Just signed this UK Parliament petition for developmentally-appropriate care/education till end of Key Stage 1. Any help U….

RT @Fi_PlayScotland: 📅 Just over a month to go until #Playday2025 on 6 August!.This year’s theme is Play – the culture of childhood and it'….

RT @LynnMcNair: ‘If you are going to keep children safe…you must provide places in which they can get the thrills they need: there must be….

Imagine all children being supported this way, in child friendly and centred environments- what difference this would make across all outcomes . Empower + empathy = excited, engaged children children ❤️❤️.

The head teacher reminding everyone that school uniform cannot be enforced and she doesn't try. Instead she's focused on creating a child centred/friendly culture built on support and choices, not control and shame.

A powerful intervention from @PlayScotland (Cherie), the children and an inspiring head teacher ❤️. The children spoke about what really matters to them- comfort, movement and freedom of expression.

Survey collecting info on family experiences of attending school ⏬️.

RT @UpstartScot: Play is now recognised by scientists as 'a biological imperative' but most adults still think it's a frivolous add-on. Her….

If you work in education ⏬️ Can you help @RepairEdASN.

RT @maxantonynewman: “Nae problem here”: Troubling race and racism in Scottish education is a powerful article by my colleague at @UofGEduc….

RT @PovertyAlliance: Change for the better happens when people stand together and demand it. Join the march for all of us!..

Given the sheer volume of stories we hear from families, I’m asking you to:. ✍️ Write to your MSPs.❓ Ask what they’re actually doing.📢 Reference what they’ve said publicly.🤝 Ask them to meet you. Let’s see who walks the walk. #DemocracyInAction #ParentVoice #Election2026.

We’re not asking for miracles. Just honesty, accountability + genuine representation, campaigning and support. Words are powerful, but they're not enough. Parents and children need more than voices, we need representatives who act.

Parents/children don’t have the luxury of posturing. We don’t get to grandstand. We don't have that power or platform. We live the consequences of inaction every day. While politicians move on to the next headline/script.

It’s not enough to raise an issue in Parliament, or send a tweet. We need real action. Raising a point and moving on isn’t representation, it is not campaigning, it’s posturing and performance.

Then you see them on media again, saying the same rhetoric, shouting the same rehearsed script, and you write to them again . We've write to MSPs regularly on many of these issues. It's always the same voices showing up with the soundbites but rarely with the action.

They publicly shout from their platforms:.We care about families.We think your children deserve better.We believe in equality and fairness. But when you write to them? . You're told. That’s not within our remit. Or .We can’t help with that. Or.Nothing . .

Campaigning with and for parents/carers and children for 7 yrs now both locally and nationally the same pattern is observed and repeated with politicians. They talk. They posture. They criticise. But when it's time to act or represent?.Silence.

When both the adults and the children are not coping, no one can thrive. Those children who were coping, slowly worn down too, absorbing the stress and tensions . If we really cared about children, especially their wellbeing, change would happen. 'The system doesnt work'.

The rhetoric says rights.The reality says not for you. When everyone in schools is stressed, not coping, burnt out + running on empty what type of environment does this create?.Stress doesn’t stay in one place.It spills out in the atmosphere.It becomes the air children breathe.