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Supporting School Age Childcare in Scotland
National Conference - March 2026
Inclusion in Action! Listening, learning, and leading for children with additional support needs in school age childcare
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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.

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We have various templates, toolkits, and sample policies to help you manage your service and meet its regulatory requirements.

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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.

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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.

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Play in School Age Childcare
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Managing Distressed Behaviour with Trauma Informed Practice
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Season's greetings and all the best for 2020!

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SOSCN National Conference, March 2020

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Join us for a celebration of Out of School Care, featuring a range of keynote speakers, video presentations and workshops, as well as an opening address from Maree Todd MSP, Minister for Children and Young People.
Tickets

To book tickets please see this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-out-of-school-care-in-scotland-tickets-81720617567

We are delighted to announce our national conference for 2020 - 'Celebrating Out of School Care in Scotland'.

Date and Time

Monday 23rd March 2020

10:00am – 3:00pm (registration and refreshments from 9:30am. Buffet lunch provided before afternoon session)

Location

Hilton Glasgow
1 William Street
G3 8ST
www.hilton.com/glasgow

Accommodation Discount

Participants to the event are entitled to a 20% discount on the hotel's 'Best Available Bed and Breakfast Rate' for the night (22nd March) before the event. Rates are discounted on the best available rate; therefore rates will fluctuate dependant on demand. A weblinkto obtain this offer will be provided on booking.

How to book

Tickets to the event are for sale at Eventbrite.com for £65 (including booking fee) and are on a first-come first-served basis.You can purchase tickets at this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-out-of-school-care-in-scotland-tickets-81720617567

Refunds are not available; however, delegates can be substituted prior to the event.

We want to celebrate the many examples of good practice in our sector so early in the year will be going out to innovative services to make short filmed interviews with service staff, children and parents, let us know if you want to be part of this or have shortvideos yourself you could contribute.

Care Inspectorate Annual Returns

This year's annual returns will be available to service providers for completion between 3 January and 14 February 2020.

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Professional Development Book Club
Social Care: Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation in Scotland - call for evidence
National Outcomes Review 2023
Inquiry into Child Poverty and Parental Employment
Adverse Weather and Extreme Temperature
A Quality Framework for Early Learning and Childcare, School Aged Childcare and Childminding Services
Personal Plan Toolkit
Everything you need to create personal plans within your service
subscribers:
£15
past-subscribers:
£20
clearance:
£10
£10
Medication Management Toolkit
Medication storage, administration and record keeping
subscribers:
£20
non-subscribers:
£10
sale:
£1
£1
Recruitment Toolkit
Everything you need for the recruitment process, including job descriptions, application forms, advert templates and more
subscribers:
£18
non-subscribers:
£27
sale:
£10
£10