Save the Children

Our work aims to help parents, carers and wider families to play and learn with their children. Children learn through play. We work with partners to find ways to empower parents to play with their children at home and raise awnaress of how this helps their children develop.

Our work in Scotland includes:

• Families Connect - which empowers parents to create a supportive home environment, so children can achieve their full potential at school and in life
• Children's Places - a project made of community-based partnerships; where children, families and the wider community can shape services and work towards improvements through shared goals and governance
• Play Well Pack - joint work with Play Scotland. The pack is packed full of suggestions, ideas and tips to support children's play and learning at home

We are also campaigning to increase family incomes and reduce poverty among families with children and working with families and partners for policy changes that raise family incomes and put more money in families pockets. We want to Scottish Government to at least double the value of the Scottish Child Payment to £20 a week as soon as possible.