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Supporting School Age Childcare in Scotland
New SOSCN memberships
Find out about our new membership benefits, including policies, bitesize training, and lots more.
Become one of our members and access training, discounts, and join up with other services.
What we do
How we can help?

We have a range on in-person school age childcare specific training and offer a bespoke consultancy service to help keep your childcare service in good health.

Resources and Templates

We have various templates, toolkits, and sample policies to help you manage your service and meet its regulatory requirements.

Policy and research

As the national intermediary organisation in Scotland for school-age childcare, we are involved in advocacy work on behalf of the sector and provide expert opinion and offer views, on proposals, issues or policies affecting the sector.

Information and Guidance

If you are a parent, carer, child, workforce member, or anyone else with an interest in school age childcare, we provide a range a free guides and materials.

School Age Childcare Specific Training
GIRFEC and Personal Plans
Play in School Age Childcare
Medication Management
Managing Distressed Behaviour with Trauma Informed Practice
Quality Assurance
Our online quality assurance badges will help you aim high in all aspects of your service provision.
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SOSCN Shop
SOSCN Shop
SOSCN now has an online shop

SOSCN now has an online shop.

You can access the shop by visiting this link - https://soscn.org/shop - and browse the items for sale.

Press the add to cart button for anything you wish to buy. As these are all digital downloads, each product can only be added to the shopping cart once.

You can see what is in your cart by pressing the shopping cart button, this will appear at the top right of your screen after you have added products. You will need to scroll to the top of your screen if using a mobile device.

The shopping cart will have a checkout button that takes you to the checkout page.

Once you have made a purchase you will receive an email confirming your purchase, this email also acts as your receipt. The email will also contain a download link to access your files. Please be patient when clicking the download link, it can sometimes take 10-20 seconds to create your download depending on how many purchases you have made.

Please also check your spam folder for this email.

If you have any issues or do not receive the email then please get in touch: shop@soscn.org

.zip Files

All purchased come as a zip (compressed) file. These are common files you can extract on your computer. If you are unfamiliar with zip files then information can be found by searching 'how to open zip files' in your browser. Or follow these instructions:

Mac

Double-click the .zip file.

The unzipped item appears in the same folder as the .zip file.

Windows

Open File Explorer and find the .zip file.

To unzip the entire folder, right-click to select Extract All, and then follow the instructions.

latest updates
Inspection Round-up Jan 2026
Medication Management in School Age Childcare
GIRFEC and Personal Planning in School Age Childcare
Managing Distressed Behaviour with Trauma‑Informed Practice
Play in School Age Childcare
Staff Interactions with Children
Safe Staffing
Outdoor Play in Winter
Quality improvement framework for early learning and childcare sectors
Workforce Survey 2024