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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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OSC A to Z
A - B
accessibility
accidents and emergencies
additional support needs
allergies
anti-bullying
attainment
behaviour rules
Ch - Co
childcare tax credits
childcare vouchers
child protection
children's charter
children's participation - UNCRC
codes of conduct
consent
Co - G
contracts, costs, fees and cancellations
creativity
Data Protection
equality and diversity
First-Aid Training
food choices
Getting it Right
H - J
health and safety and insurance
homework
illness, infection and medication
Induction
introduction
Jargon Buster
Just A...
K - Pa
Kids' Club
Learning
Lone Parents
Moving and Handling
Nature
Outdoor Play
parental rights and involvement
Pe - T
Personal Plans
Play
play and risk
Quality in OSC
Risk and Challenge
social media and mobile phones
trips and outings
U - Z
United Nations
volunteers
workforce
X-Boxes and Screens
Young Adults
Zero Tolerance
Zero Tolerance
Zero Tolerance
Zero Tolerance is acharity working to end men's violence against women by promoting gender equality and challenging attitudes which normalise violence and abuse

Zero Tolerance is a Scottish charity working to end men's violence against women by promoting gender equality and by challenging attitudes which normalise violence and abuse.

Their work began in 1992 with a series of iconic poster campaigns designed to raise awareness and challenge attitudes about violence against women.

The focus of their work today is on primary prevention. We want to change the social attitudes and values which permit violence to occur. We take a practical, evidence-based approach to challenging violence and promoting change. To find out more about primary prevention, read the Zero Tolerance Primary Prevention Briefing Paper on recent preventative strategies undertaken in Scotland.

Historically SOSCN worked with Zero Tolerance back in 1999/2000 to pilot training for staff in out of school care. This pilot was written up for the joint European project Peace Education in Out of School Care (2000), A joint European project between 7 organisations based in a total of 4 countries: France, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Spain. SOSCN's member partners in this project were: La FundacioCatalana de l'Esplaite, Edex, CoordinadoraInfantil y Juvenil de TiempoLibre de Vallecas (Spain); L'UnionRegionale des Franca du Languedoc-Roussillon, Le Centre de Loisirs Pierre Francois de Vauvert (France) and Playboard (Northern Ireland).

Which is not available online but there are limited copies available for lending from SOSCN.

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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
Safe Staffing
Outdoor Play in Winter
Quality improvement framework for early learning and childcare sectors