Consultation on Guidelines for Practice Placement in CLD

The CLD Standards Council has been working with  students, practitioners and learning providers to develop guidelines for Practice Placements in CLD.   We would now like feedback on this first version to ensure the tone and the content of the Guidelines reflects the needs of the CLD field.

Background to development of the Guidelines

In 2013 a group of over 60 Students, practitioners, learning providers and employers met in Glasgow to participate in what was a very enthusiastic discussion around the Place of CLD Professional Practice in Scotland.  CLD Standards Council for Scotland committed to capturing discussions from that day and a working group including various representatives from Universities, Colleges, students, third sector and employers met a few times a year to progress the work and create the guidelines.
CLD Standards Council would like to acknowledge the hard work and commitment of the working group in getting this important document to this stage.

The guidelines

This is the first version of Guidelines for Professional Practice Placement in Community Learning and Development

Guidelines document for consultation

Consultation

We are now seeking feedback on this first version to ensure the tone and the content of the Guidelines reflects the needs of the CLD field.  You will find that the working group have included dialogue boxes within the Guidelines to give you an opportunity to reflect on the content and to consider if the information included is relevant and appropriate for the CLD field.  This is your opportunity to contribute to the guidelines before they are formally published.  Your comments on the dialogue boxes can be inserted via the survey link below.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RG6RPJ7
Please provide comments on this document by 27 January 2017.

Next Steps

Following publication the next step will be to consider how the CLD field supports the Guidelines and ensures that they are incorporated into the everyday life of Professional Practice Placement in Community Learning and Development.