National 5
Care · National 5
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 National 5 on sqa.org.uk.