Purpose of CLD
The Scottish Government issued Strategic Guidance for Community Planning partnerships:Community learning and development in 2012. The Strategic Guidance sets out what the Scottish Government sees as the purpose of CLD and what it wants CLD to focus on. The purpose is described as follows:
“We see [CLD] as empowering people, individuallyand collectively, to make positive changes in their lives and in their communities, through learning.”
It further states that
“the purpose and principles [of CLD] areembodied in the competences and ethics for CLD practice as set out by the CLD Standards Council for Scotland”
The focus of CLD, which the Strategic Guidance puts into the context of the National Performance Framework, is identified as:
- Improved life chances for people of allages, through learning, personaldevelopment and active citizenship
- Stronger, more resilient, supportive, influential and inclusive communities