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Community Learning and Development Managers Scotland

Annual Conference 2014

Ann Kivlin, Education Officer & Sheila Brown, HMI

Community Learning and Development Policy and Improvement Team

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What do we do?

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Strategic Guidance for Community Planning Partnerships: Community Learning and Development (2012)

Clear statement of the purpose of community learning and development (CLD)

Sets out the focus for CLD within the National Performance Framework as:

1. improved life chances for people of all ages, through learning, personal development and active citizenship

2. stronger, more resilient supportive, influential and inclusive communities.

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What do we need to do..?

Each local authority should have a clearly defined framework for planning and delivering CLD, through partnership, as a key element of its reformed public services.

CLD Strategic Guidance (p5)

The Scottish Government, 2012

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The Requirements for Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 2013

What have we been doing?

– Direct Support– Policy Support – Supplementary Materials

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Direct Support –

Partnership Agreements, Engagement Requests, National Organisations, Strategic Funding Partnerships (SFP’s), Innovation & Improvement Fund (I&I) …

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Policy Support – Drop in events/ sessions for HMI’s, ALO and other ES/SG staff

• Strategic Guidance for Community Planning Partnerships: Community Learning and Development (2012)

• Our ambitions for improving the life chances of young people in Scotland - National Youth Work Strategy (2014-2019)

• Adult Learning in Scotland: A Statement of Ambition (2014)• Adult Literacies in Scotland 2020 (ALIS 2020): Strategic Guidance (2010)• The Adult ESOL Strategy for Scotland (Refresh 2014)

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Supplementary Materials

Local Authority Guidance, Awareness Raising Presentations, Efficient & Adequate paper, Innovative Practice Visits, SFP & I&I products …

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Who is doing well?Varied picture, however:• Dundee – small city, neighbourhood structure and existing consultation mechanisms in each of their 6

neighbourhoods• Edinburgh – involvement of voluntary sector (WEA and others) in consultation and needs analysis

Innovation and Improvement• Orkney – use of CLD Area Profiles as basis of innovative model of engagement to develop methodology for

comprehensive consultation relevant to remote/rural area(s).• West Lothian – creative conversations locally linked with Community Planning Partnership’s community

engagement framework.• Learning Link & WEA -  researching and gathering learners’ views of their personal learning experiences.

The aim of the project is to find out what barriers learners encounter to contributing their views in their personal learning context and how these might be overcome.

• Youth Scotland Network - developing and delivering train the trainers materials relating to the CLD competencies, Strategic Guidance and the CLD Regulations.

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What next?

Inwards (ES)

- Ensuring a continued focus on CLD Regulations for several cycles – bedding in and measuring impact

- Supporting ALOs and HMI’s

- Implications for Inspection and review

Outwards (CLD)

- Continued support to sector?

- Varying structures, comparing and sharing progress complex

- Engaging and supporting partners and wider stakeholders

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www.educationscotland.gov.uk

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