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• Great to see you! – The Annual lecture - On Friday the 4th of October the CLD Standards Council hosted its annual lecture with the support of Glasgow University School of Education. Kate Still, who led the Independent Review of CLD, delivered the lecture to practitioners from across Scotland and, alongside our Chair Alan Sherry OBE, took questions from the audience. Kate spoke about… Continue Reading
• Come and join our team - The CLD Standards Council are recruiting for a Corporate Performance Officer. Do you have a strong knowledge, understanding and experience of CLD professional practice, CLD delivery structures and the make-up of the CLD workforce? Do you have a skillset in quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis? Do you have knowledge of the Data Protection Act… Continue Reading
• Website updates – July 2024 - In the slightly quieter summer period, we are planning a system update on our web sites in the week beginning 29 July.  The CLD Standards Council website may be unavailable for about a day at most. You should not initially notice any change to the site, though we are looking to make some revisions to the site… Continue Reading
• Report on Independent Review of CLD Published - Learning: For All. For Life. A report from the Independent Review of Community Learning and Development On 17 July 2024, Mr Graeme Dey MSP, Minister for Further and Higher Education and Veterans announced that a report on improving Community Learning and Development had been published.  Ms Kate Still was appointed in December 2023 to undertake… Continue Reading
• Statement from the CLD Standards Council – February 2024 - As the professional body for adult, community and youth workers in Scotland, the Community Learning and Development Standards Council grants professional endorsement for relevant adult learning, youth and community work degree programmes. We can confirm that after extensive engagement with the QAA (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) and the University of Glasgow that the… Continue Reading