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Supporting School Age Childcare in Scotland
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Medication Management Checklist
Suggestions for supporting your medication management practice
medication-management-checklist.pdf
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Committees and Constitution
This resource includes a template constitution for a School Age Child are Service as well as information and guidance for voluntary management committees.
sacc-voluntary-committees-constitution.zip
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Parent Finance March 2026
Customisable posters to help you advertise to your parents how much your service could actually cost if they access Universal Credit or Tax-Free childcare
parent-finance-march-2026.zip
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SAC Employment Contract Templates
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Inspection round-up looks at recent inspection reports from school age childcare services available on the Care Inspectorate's website, highlighting:
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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.

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
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Play in School Age Childcare
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Our online quality assurance badges will help you aim high in all aspects of your service provision.
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Online Learning
Online Learning
SOSCN's online training platform with courses in practice, wellbeing, and much more

SOSCN's online learning platform is live.

On our learning platform, you can develop or refresh your understanding and enhance your skills in a range of subjects that you can put into practice, to help you deliver the best play and wellbeing outcomes for the children in your services.

Whether you're an experienced professional or eager newcomer, at SOSCN Learn, we aim to support everyone in the school age childcare workforce with high quality, sector specific training. Building on over 30 years' experience supporting thousands of school age childcare services, our goal at SOSCN Learn is to share the knowledge you need, in a format you can access anytime, anywhere.

Please visit this link to find out more: https://soscnlearn.online

If you wish to bulk-buy courses for yoru staff, please get in touch at the email info@soscnlearn.online

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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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