Higher
Care · Higher
Health and social care values, practice and legislation, grounded in real care settings.
What Care is about
Care is about what good health and social care looks like in practice: the values behind it, the needs of different service users, and the legislation and codes that protect them, all applied to realistic care settings.
What it offers you
It is a strong stepping stone to college and university courses in nursing, social work and health care, and to work in care settings.
Papers & marking schemes
2026
2 files2025
2 files2024
2 files2023
2 files2022
2 filesSQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Care Higher on sqa.org.uk.