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Supporting School Age Childcare in Scotland

Our Manifesto for School Age Childcare

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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Manifesto for School Age Childcare
Manifesto for School Age Childcare

With the right support to our five key asks, SACC can continue to transform lives, strengthen communities, and help ensure Scotland really is the best place in the world for a child to grow up.

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Download a copy from our website to find out why.

https://soscn.org/downloads/news/soscn-manifesto-for-sacc.pdf

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Manifesto for School Age Childcare
Inspection Round-up Apr 2026
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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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
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