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APPENDIX 3 - INTERVIEW FRAMEWORK

Interview Framework for Stakeholders

Not all questions will be asked. Please note that some of these questions/text are designed as prompts. Key questions that should be included are in bold.

1. Relationship with Learning Connections

  • What aspects of Learning Connection's work relates to your policy area or the work of your organisation?
  • How does it relate - i.e. what role do they perform
    • Contribution to policy development.......... Tick Box
    • Support for practitioner development....... Tick Box
    • Source of external expertise................... Tick Box
    • Other ................................................ Tick Box

Please specify………………………………………….

  • What aspects of the work of Learning Connections is most important to your policy area or your organisation (Which? and Why?)

2. Achievements of LC

  • What do you think are the main strategic achievements of Learning Connections over the last 5 years?
  • Within LC what's working well? Examples. Good practice.
  • What's not working so well? Examples. Specific issues?
  • What would you want them to do differently?

3. Delivery Structure

  • What do you see as having been the main impact of Learning Connections moving into Communities Scotland and then into the Lifelong Learning Directorate of the Scottish Government?
  • Has this changed your relationship/role with them? If so how?
  • What's working well in terms of them being part of Scottish Government? Examples… Good practice?
  • What's not working so well? Examples… Specific issues? Are there any examples where the organisations structure/position in SG is preventing it from having the maximum impact?
  • Where do you think Learning Connections ( LC) or parts of LC should be based?


4. Delivery Landscape

  • What other stakeholders are working in the same area(s) as Learning Connections?
  • How do you see LC's role in relation to these other stakeholders?
  • What does LC do that is different from them?
  • Where is there duplication and or overlap between what LC does and other people/organisations do (both internally within the Scottish Government and externally)?
  • What added value does LC bring that other stakeholders are not offering?
  • How is the relationship between LC, other parts of DGLL and other stakeholders? (Examples)
  • What other options are there for undertaking LC's functions - for instance what would happen if Learning Connections was no longer able to undertake all its current functions?

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