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Scottish Executive Guidance for Community Learning and Development
MINISTERIAL FOREWORD
The Scottish Executive believes that Community Learning & Development (CLD) has an essential role in achieving our priorities of improving public services and promoting community regeneration, social inclusion, life long learning and active citizenship.
This guidance sets out a long term framework for the development of CLD. It is the outcome of an extensive period of review and practical action to ensure that community learning and development is central to our vision for Scotland.
Community learning and development should incorporate the best of practice undertaken in the fields of 'community education' and 'community development'. It should enable individuals and communities to make real changes to their lives through community action and community-based learning. CLD is an approach which enables agencies to work with communities and provide access to their involvement in learning, action and decision-making.
Community learning and development is a key feature of our approach to lifelong learning. We believe it should be accorded the same status as the work of schools, colleges, universities and work-based learning providers.
We have placed our approach to CLD at the heart of our work on community planning. This means that for the first time community learning and development is being taken out of the margins and placed at the centre of the decision-making process within our communities. We want CLD to become a central feature of the way in which planning authorities and service providers engage with the communities and citizens we are all here to serve.
We expect to see a significant expansion in community learning and development opportunities. Multi-agency partnerships will use this approach across a wide range of public service policies, from health and environmental education, to supporting active citizenship, literacy, community safety and much more.
We have a strong tradition of CLD in Scotland. Indeed we have often been at the forefront of policy and programme initiatives within the UK, EU and internationally. This guidance will help us to build on those foundations.
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Margaret Curran
Minister for Communities | Andy Kerr
Minister for Finance and Public Services | Peter Peacock
Minister for Education and Young People | Jim Wallace
Deputy First Minister and Minister for Lifelong Learning |
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