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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.

Watch our latest Inspection Round-Up

Inspection round-up looks at recent inspection reports from school age childcare services available on the Care Inspectorate's website, highlighting:

What is working Well?

Recurring areas for improvement.

What does Very Good or Excellent Look Like?

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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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Events

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Professional Development Book Club

Join up with your colleagues in the school age childcare sector from across the country, to read, learn, network and develop

Members' Networking

Previous Events

Archive of our previous events

A - Ba

A Register for the Future

Access to Childcare Fund

Activity and Wellbeing 29/11/2022

Autism Learning Session

Back to Basics

Back to basics- financial planning in OSC

Bu - Ge

Building Resilience Event

COVID-19 Inquiry Discussion

Care Inspectorate Update and 'Q and A' Session

Celebrating Out of School Care

Delivering a Playful and Active Summer 2021

Get Ready for Summer

Ge - J

Getting Help with Childcare Costs

Getting it Right for Business

In-Person Play Training

Induction Training

International Learning Session

Jim Taylor Knows Autism - Session 2

L - Ne

Local Networking

Looking back at the past 30+ years of SOSCN - Membership Online Catch-Up

Managing Distressed Behaviour with Trauma Informed Practice

Networking Meetings

Networking Meetings - May and June 2021

Networking Opportunity

No - SO

Not just a dream

OSC Practice during COVID

Online Membership Catch-up

Play Training

Quality Improvement Framework for Early Learning and Childcare Sectors

SOSCN Conference 2024

SO - Se

SOSCN Members Online Network Meetings - October

SOSCN Regional Events

SSSC Codes of Practice Conversation

Safer Staffing

Scottish Government School Age Childcare Update

Seeing the Potential

Se - T

Seeing the Whole Child

Shaping the Framework

Skills Development Funding

Staying Out

Support to Pay for Childcare

Teaching Stem in OSC

W - W

What it Takes

Previous Events

Archive of our previous events

A - Ba

A Register for the Future

Access to Childcare Fund

Activity and Wellbeing 29/11/2022

Autism Learning Session

Back to Basics

Back to basics- financial planning in OSC

Bu - Ge

Building Resilience Event

COVID-19 Inquiry Discussion

Care Inspectorate Update and 'Q and A' Session

Celebrating Out of School Care

Delivering a Playful and Active Summer 2021

Get Ready for Summer

Ge - J

Getting Help with Childcare Costs

Getting it Right for Business

In-Person Play Training

Induction Training

International Learning Session

Jim Taylor Knows Autism - Session 2

L - Ne

Local Networking

Looking back at the past 30+ years of SOSCN - Membership Online Catch-Up

Managing Distressed Behaviour with Trauma Informed Practice

Networking Meetings

Networking Meetings - May and June 2021

Networking Opportunity

No - SO

Not just a dream

OSC Practice during COVID

Online Membership Catch-up

Play Training

Quality Improvement Framework for Early Learning and Childcare Sectors

SOSCN Conference 2024

SO - Se

SOSCN Members Online Network Meetings - October

SOSCN Regional Events

SSSC Codes of Practice Conversation

Safer Staffing

Scottish Government School Age Childcare Update

Seeing the Potential

Se - T

Seeing the Whole Child

Shaping the Framework

Skills Development Funding

Staying Out

Support to Pay for Childcare

Teaching Stem in OSC

W - W

What it Takes

Induction Training

In-person training this August looking at the important knowledge and skills required to help new staff to school age childcare hit the ground running

Induction to School Age Childcare

Looking at the important knowledge and skills required to help new staff to school age childcare hit the ground running!

27th August – Glasgow

The beginning of term is often a time where services recruit new staff members. However, it is also a busy time for services and managers, as they transition from holiday clubs back to breakfast club and after school sessions, or re-open after a summer break. And then welcome and settle in new Primary 1 children. Amongst everything else!

We know this can make it difficult for managers and service leaders to dedicate time to new staff who require a thorough induction in a range of areas to help them settle into their new role and quickly become effective members of the team.

This session has been designed for new workers to the school age childcare sector, whether they haven't yet started, or have only recently joined your team.

The aim of this session to give these new workers the information they need to build their confidence and hit the ground running in their new role.

The learning objectives of this 3-hour session are:

Outline the out of school care sector and its history
Recognise key areas of practice, such as Child Protection, Play, Health and Safety, and GIRFEC and SHANARRI
Name legislative and regulatory requirements of the Care Inspectorate and Scottish Social Services Council, including Health and Social Care Standards and Codes of Practice
Identify common and relevant policies and procedures

Please note, this session should be used as a supplement to your own organisation's induction processes, to ensure new workers are aware of service specific policies, procedures and practices.