“Our vision is for outdoor learning to be an integral part of Glasgow’s Early Learning and Childcare offer with each child enabled to access the outdoors daily, to experience regular encounters with natural environments and to have the opportunity to engage in rich outdoor experiences both within the nursery setting and beyond. We believe in supporting children to experience and engage in adventurous play where they can learn to assess and manage risk within a supportive environment.”

Outdoor Position Statement, Glasgow City Council, 2025

GLASGOW TOOLS AND SUPPORTS

• Glasgow ELC Outdoor Position Statement

This guidance document sets out some of the key drivers in establishing outdoor early learning environments, from the benefits to the compliance.

It focuses on three key questions:
1. Why should we go outdoors?
2. How do we go outdoors?
3. What do we do when we are outdoors? 

Download: Outdoor Position Statement – GCC – 2025

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Visit the CPL Page and use the search term ‘Outdoor’ within the ‘TARGETED’ section to identify all relevant training opportunities, or click on the CPL category ‘Outdoor’ on the right of this page to find relevant upcoming in-person training events. *Note Mar 26: Training opportunities coming soon*

NATIONAL DOCUMENTS AND POLICIES

Type ‘Outdoor’ into the search function on right hand side of top row, to identify all relevant national documents and policies.