Monday February 9th 2026
Jedburgh Out of School Club operates a breakfast, after school and holiday club and uses the dining hall within the Jedburgh Grammar Campus.
Written by Local Democracy Reporter, Paul Kelly
A Borders school club at which leadership was previously rated ‘weak’ is showing signs of improvement, a new inspection has found.
When Jedburgh Out of School Club was visited by a representative of the Care Inspectorate in June last year it was found that although youngsters benefited from kind and caring relationships with staff personal planning needed to be developed and used consistently to support children.
The planning and provision of play experiences also needed to be further improved, the report found.
The service was rated ‘weak’ for the quality of leadership and its staff team and ‘adequate’ for its setting and its play, care and learning provision.
During a follow-up visit completed on January 14 improvements were found that raised the leadership rating to ‘adequate/satisfactory’.
Jedburgh Out of School Club is registered with the Care Inspectorate to provide a care service to a maximum of 44 children at any one time aged from three years up to and including S1.
The club operates a breakfast, after school and holiday club and uses the dining hall within the Jedburgh Grammar Campus.
Opportunities for outdoor play are provided in the school playground and nearby wooded area.
The report states: “At the last inspection we made a requirement regarding the need to plan and provide appropriate management arrangements.
“This had been achieved with a peripatetic manager now in place. Support was now available for staff and improved outcomes for children had been achieved.
“At the last inspection we made a requirement regarding the need to improve the opportunities for training and professional development of staff. This had been achieved through systems which supported staff practice and improved the outcomes for children.”
The report found that the system for planning play and recording play experiences needed to continue to be developed and that staff needed to continue to use information about individual children to provide further support.
The report adds: “Newly developed systems for quality assurance were resulting in improvements to the outcomes and experiences for children.”
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