Informing the Road to Regulation

As part of the Lawson Foundation Outdoor Play Strategy 2.0 Cloudberry has been a part of a cohort of 8 individually funded projects exploring the needs of the outdoor play sector in Canada. 

Our project demonstrates Cloudberry Forest School as a “learning lab”. Government child care licensing inspectors will participate as observers to explore and inform the potential for Forest and Nature Schools to be licensed (if feasible) via the 2022 legislative review process in Newfoundland and Labrador. The project uses evaluation to help identify best practices, risk management procedures, appropriate ratios, health and safety practices, and other quality assurances. The project concludes with community engagement activities to disseminate evaluation results and a potential capacity building initiative for early childhood educators and government child care licensing inspectors to acquire Forest and Nature School training.  

As part of the project we are pleased to share with you our final 2024 Evaluation Summary completed by Dr. David Philpott and Janet Miller Pitt. 

For publication rights or speaking and consulting on this project please contact Laura: laura@cloudberryforestschool.org

For more information on the Lawson 2.0 Cohort please visit https://lawson.ca/our-work/outdoor-play/second-phase/