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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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Revised Common Core and Survey
Revised Common Core and Survey
We have been working with a number of key partners across the children and young people’s workforce in Scotland to undertake a review of the Common Core

We have been working with a number of key partners across the children and young people's workforce in Scotland to undertake a review of the Common Core. The Common Core describes the values and knowledge everyone should have if they work with children and young people to ensure they build up strong relationships and promote children’s rights. It is important that we get this right which is why we are looking for your views on the work we’ve done. Attached is the revised Common Core - https://soscn.org/downloads/news/pdf-common-core-march-2024.pdf - and we are asking you to review this and complete a short survey with your feedback. We will use this feedback to make further revisions before we seek ministerial approval and a relaunch of the Common Core.

Please complete the survey here - https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/SDxXt8G5

Your support in this work is very much appreciated.

latest updates
SAC Employment Contract Templates
Template contracts of employment for a support worker, practitioner, deputy manager, and manager in a school age childcare service
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non-subscribers:
£10
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Inspection Round-up Mar 2026
Inspection Round-up Feb 2026
Members Networking Event Feb 2026 - Report
Networking March 2026
School Age Childcare Workforce Survey
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