The number of out-of-school places for children has risen from 2,400 to 16,000 in ten years, workers in the sector have increased from 300 to nearly 3,000, and the number of out-of-school club volunteers has grown from 300 to nearly 2,000.
Irene Audain, SOSCN director, commended achievements made in out-of-school care during the past ten years, including the sector's hard work this summer with refugee families in the Sighthill and Castle-milk areas of Glasgow. Out-of-school-care services have been praised for leading the integration of different communities through summer playschemes that brought children and their families together despite local tensions (News, 23 August).
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