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Find out about our new membership benefits, including policies, bitesize training, and lots more.
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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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SSSC Revised Codes of Practice Consultation- have your say
SSSC Revised Codes of Practice Consultation- have your say

Following on from the conversations last autumn about revising the Codes of Practice for Social Service Workers and Employers, the SSSC are now consulting on the draft revised Codes of Practice. Following the feedback, the main changes to the Codes are:

  • updated language
  • strengthening and reflecting developments in current practice
  • rights and relationships
  • de-cluttering and streamlining

The consultation is open for responses until 5pm on Friday 7th July 2023.

You can respond online via the Codes consultation: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/LC1GGC/

There will also be a series of online and in-person Codes consultation focus groups being held throughout May and June where you can discuss the changes, and share your views and thoughts on the revised Codes.

For further information about the consultation and book places on the online and in-person events, please visit: https://news.sssc.uk.com/news/revised-codes-consultation

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