CLDSC Practice Placement Guidance
Academic Year 2020-21
Due to the continuing Covid-19 situation, we have updated our Guidance relating to CLD Practice Placements in Academic Year 2020/21.
Please click here for the Updated Guidance
CLD Blethers
Delivering in partnership with CLD colleagues in Education Scotland, we have not one, but three blethering opportunities to tell you about!
- CLD Practitioners Health & Wellbeing Blether – 29 September 2-3pm
This blether is all about you! Information from the CLD Standards Council (CLDSC) Covid-19 Surveys highlights areas impacting on your health and wellbeing as practitioners including: volume/pace of work; return to face-to-face delivery; and job security. The CLDSC Code of Ethics will frame the discussion giving an opportunity to share issues of concern as well as time to discuss strategies and support.
To attend the Blether, register on Eventbrite
- Blended Learning/Digital Engagement Blether – 5 October 2-3.15pm
Online/blended delivery and engagement are hot topics just now. With some brief inputs from other practitioners, this blether will focus on how you’ve maintained engagement with current learners and encouraged new learners to participate – what’s worked, what hasn’t? It will also create the opportunity to identify strategies and professional learning needs.
To attend the Blether, register on Eventbrite
- Challenging Poverty Week Twitter Blether – 6 October 12-1pm
To promote Challenge Poverty Week (5-11 October), we’re hosting our very first Twitter Chat! Using the CLD Competences as a guide, we’ll look at key areas of CLD practice in relation to addressing the causes and highlighting the impacts of poverty. The Poverty Alliance will also be taking part. Search for the chat on Twitter by using #CLDChallengePoverty and don’t forget to follow @CLDStandardsCouncil and @EdScotCLD too!
COSLA launches Blueprint for Scottish Local Government
CoSLA believes that the Blueprint will “allow Local Government to build around an ambitious vision for Scotland’s future – one based on the empowerment of people and communities”.
The Blueprint argues that “decisions should be made from the community up, not from the top down. In making the voice of local people heard and acted upon across all public services, we can address the huge health, social and financial costs of persistent inequality in this country.
We also recognise that engaging a representative group from across our communities can be difficult and that we need to be realistic about the work and time involved in ensuring that the voice of people heard is reflective of the wider community”.
Community Development Alliance Scotland Annual Conference: Action, Impact and Change
Speakers at CDAS’s conference on 7 October include Doreen Grove (Scottish Government), Anna Clarke, President of the International Association for Community Development, and Phil Prentice (Scotland’s Towns Partnership). There’ll be time for discussion on key themes including influencing decision making, human-rights and inclusion.
To learn more and register for the conference, please go to the Community Development Alliance Scotland website
Shaping the future of Adult Learning in Europe: EPALE Community Conference
6,7 and 8 October
To learn more and to register for the conference, please go to the EPALE website
Community Conversation: Making Rights Real
17 September, 10am -12pm
Making Rights Real is a new grassroots human rights organisation in Scotland, and with the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Participation and the Practice of Rights project is hosting this event for people living in Scotland who may be experiencing human rights concerns.
For further information, please visit the Making Rights Real website
And finally, Thank You!
Our Virtual Meet-Up in aid of Macmillan last week raised £75! Those attending pooled information and experience of implementing Coronavirus CLD Guidance and delivering blended learning.
We also heard about a free 2-day online event being run by Co-operative College Learning Live (sessions include What is Co-op Learning, Social Action Showcase and Making Knowledge Together Through Radical Learning – all with a global slant). And of course a sweet treat recipe or two was shared too!