presentation to the workforce development seminar - 28 may 2013

Rory MacLeod

Director – CLD

Standards Council for Scotland

Workforce Development Seminar

Approve training courses

Development and

training opportunities.

Consider a

registration system.

National strength, local delivery

A total workforce

A Professional Standards Council for Community Learning and Development

A clever man once said…

“We cannot solve our problems from the

same level of thinking that created them”

Mr A. Einstein

“There’s no power greater than a community

discovering what it cares about”

“We drink 3 cups of tea to do business;

the first you are a stranger,

the second you become a friend,

and the third you join our family.”

•

“Greg Mortenson;3 Cups of Tea.”

Well…….

• In that case, have a conversation, stop talking

Some fundamental challenges! What do we stand for..!?

• “They are in the business of challenging oppression, promoting social justice and promoting empowerment” OTS

• ..Engage in ideological discussion..nature of society..individuals understanding of the world...change.!!

• Local concerns, the individual, own workplace....know the context!!

• Social transformation..based on values, principles. Beck/Purcell.

Reflective practitioner...!!

• “True education is something that people do for themselves with the help of others, not something that is done to them by experts.”

‘Advancing Scotland as a

Learning Society: the

impact made by community learning and development’

The CLD Standards Council and the Framework for CPD in CLD

Employers, organisations and leaders

Practitioners

The six factors of a Learning Organisation

(Kandola and Fullerton: 2004, 159)

Illustration: CPD approaches, ideas and techniques

Ones principles, qualities or standards…OED

• Values…

– Self determination.

– Inclusion.

– Empowerment

– Work collaboratively.

– Promotion of lifelong learning as ..lifelong.

To the power of three.....

Values

Comp’s Ethics

As a competent practitioner, you will be able to demonstrate that you can:

develop and plan programmes and project activities

manage and monitor programmes and project activities

manage and monitor programmes and project activities

organise, deploy and monitor resources effectively

recruit, manage and support people (staff, volunteers)

identify and access funding/ resources

understand and manage risk

interpret and apply relevant legislation (e.g. equalities, Child Protection, Health and Safety)

What is registration?

• “ It is an individual commitment to professional practice according to the values, principles, competences and code of ethics for community learning and development, and to continuing professional development.”

Requirements for registration…

Commitments to the values underpinning CLD.

Commitment to the code of ethics for CLD.

Commitment to ongoing CPD.

Commitment to practise using CLD competences.

Warrior • Warriors for the human spirit

• ..whose only weapons are compassion and insight.

• Engage wholeheartedly, let go of outcomes.

• We persevere with the people we care about.

• Patience from perseverance, fall down 53 times, get up 54.

WARRIOR “The Dalai Lama told a group of

my colleagues not to be anxious. The work we are doing now, he said, will bear fruit in seven hundred years”.

“Your secret smile...”

“Youth work is a place you will not often find your fingerprints on your successes... you need to live vicariously on the triumphs of others...” Charles Handy

Points to reflect on......

• What are my values and what do I believe in?

• How well do I know my “community”?

• How can I develop my links and relationships with others?

• How can I get to those I’m not getting to...?

• Skills, experience...do I have them? How do I develop them? Capture them somewhere else?

• How do I know how effective my contribution is?

Your community awaits…..

Annual Report 2013