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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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Workforce Survey 2024
Workforce Survey 2024
The SOSCN School Age Childcare Workforce survey 2024 is now live

The SOSCN workforce survey 2024 is now live.

We hope that you and your colleagues are willing to participate in our survey this year as this is the only national survey which covers all aspects of what it means to be a school age childcare professional. All questions are optional, and submissions are anonymous.

You can complete the survey online here: https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/zGr85X1y

This survey is for all members of staff, including Managers/Lead Practitioners, Practitioners, Support Workers, and Playworkers.

The above link can be emailed to your staff, or shared on any messaging services you may use for your staff team.

If you wish to download a paper copy of the survey to print out and send back to us, this can be accessed here: https://soscn.org/downloads/surveys/workforce-survey-2024.pdf

We have been conducting this survey since 2008 and all the previous reports can be accessed here: https://soscn.org/policy/workforce-survey

latest updates
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
Staff Interactions with Children
Local Authority Premises Survey 2025 Results