SCA would like to provide members with the services they find most useful. While SCA believes there is great benefit in being an organisation whose members stretch across all areas and levels of the sector, we appreciate that there are times when it is relevant for groups of people working in the same area to come together to satisfy more particular common needs.

SCA is able to form groups for those with areas of ‘Special Interest’. This can take the form of a group of members who come together and meet and who have a designated representative on relevant sub-committees within the Association. This is the case with the SCA ROVI group for rehabilitation workers working with people with visual impairment which is called the Rehabilitation Workers Consultative Network.    If you would like more information on RWCN, please download an information pack.

There are other less formal arrangements which can be of benefit too. For example SCA currently runs an email distribution service for people working with children and young people (mainly managers). This consists of a
weekly email which brings together information and relevant attachments and links on the areas of resources, publications, funding, events and any other relevant news. This group has also benefited from several specialist
seminars including a mangers workshop on team leadership. SCA sources as much as possible of the related documentation and background information which is behind the news covered in media for this sector and gives it
to those receiving the email in order that they do not have to perform this task themselves.

Any SCA member can join a special interest group as part of their normal SCA membership.