Up and coming events from the CLD Standards Council

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Member Meet-up: Beyond the school gates – Reimagining MPV for CLD – Thursday 16 July 2026 1-3pm

The Mentors in Violence Prevention programme is an effective bystander intervention programme that gives young people the opportunity to take a leadership role in challenging gender based violence.

In this session we’ll be joined by colleagues from Education Scotland’s Mentors in Violence Prevention (MPV) National Team who will lead us in a collaborative session exploring how the MVP programme can be adapted and strengthened for Community Learning and Development (CLD) contexts. Together, we will help shape a CLD-specific approach that builds on MVP’s success in schools and extends its impact across communities.

As part of this session we are looking to develop the existing training into a CLD specific version, as we look to take the messages MVP gives beyond the school gates.

Session Aims:

  • Gather your feedback on how MVP training can be adapted to better reflect Youth Work, Adult Learning and Community Development practice.
  • Explore practical approaches to implementing MVP across a range of CLD settings
  • Take a deeper dive into the messages, behaviours, and stereotypes addressed within the MVP programme

This is an opportunity to contribute your expertise, share insight from your practice, and help ensure MVP remains relevant, inclusive, and impactful beyond the school gates.

Please have a look through the Glow Blog on MVP, for more information: Mentors in Violence Prevention in Scottish Schools

EDI Forum: Isolation to Connection: The Power of Intergenerational Practice – Tuesday 25 August 2026 10-12

To help Scotland become an intergenerational nation, we need more than good intentions.

To reconnect communities, challenge age discrimination and respond to the growing mental health crisis of loneliness and social isolation in the UK, we need community based intergenerational programmes developed around reflective good practice and high standards, with individuals and organisations committed to developing and improving their intergenerational practice.

This session aims to:

  • Explore how an intergenerational approach can be used in a targeted way across a range of different fields such as education, youth work, adult social care, community development etc.
  • Consider the core principles of intergenerational work and what should be embedded for practice to be seen as good quality.
  • Highlight the range of community partnership models that can be used for intergenerational work.

If you are interested in how this can be achieved, please sign up and join the conversation.