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Transforming lives through learning

Education Scotland and the Strategic Guidance

Alan ArmstrongStrategic DirectorLifelong Learning Directorate

October 2014

- so what have we been up to?


“improved life chances for people of all ages, through learning, personal development and active citizenship

stronger, more resilient, supportive, influential and inclusive communities”.

CLD Strategic Guidance, June 2012


Education Scotland developed a framework for implementation of the Guidance by:

1. Ensuring that CLD has a strong role in key policies and strategies

2. Supporting workforce development

3. Identifying and sharing good practice

4. Quality assurance and quality improvement


What do we do?

Collective ambition:• Educational outcomes for alI are improving • Inequity in educational outcomes is eradicated• Public confidence in education is high


TWO YEARS ON ………...

SO WHAT ?


1. Ensuring that CLD has a strong role in key policies and strategies

Policy lead for Scottish Government on:• Community Learning and Development – capacity building• Adult Literacy (ALIS 2020)• ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) • Adult Learning• Transfer of Youth Work Policy• CLD Regulations 2013 Production of Adult Learning Statement of Ambition Production of ‘Our Ambitions for Improving the Life Chances

of Young People in Scotland”- National Youth Work Strategy


2. Supporting workforce development

• Established Workforce Stakeholder Reference Group• Established Policy Development Stakeholder Reference

Group• Established Quality Improvement Stakeholder Reference

Group• Established Strategic Impact Group Joint working with key partners SC, WEA, Youthlink, SCDC

on workforce development initiative for the sector Funding and supporting to 21 SFPs (£1m+) Funding through small grants approximately 200k Joint work with Scottish Government colleagues on policy

across government


3. Identifying and sharing good practice

• Working in partnership with CLDMS on sub groups• Identifying innovative practice through inspection Providing Innovation and Improvement Fund information

and support on policy landscape Providing support to partners in demonstrating evidence

of impact Undertaking a number of innovative practice visits across

Scotland Sharing the practice on our websites and signposting to

our partners Contributing to building capacity of the sector


4. Quality assurance and quality improvement• Trialling of community learning inspections in 2012-13• Consolidated changes in 2013-14 based on trials• Focus is on the two key questions• Production of Inspection Briefing Note• 42 Learning Community inspections and Improving picture over the past

five years• Only a small number will be subject to further inspection• Strengths include strong volunteering; Joint planning with partners; skilled and

influential community members; high quality learning and development programmes leading to improved life chances; and well-targeted provision leading to good outcomes for learners

Areas for Improvement include Improve data collection and analysis; improve shared self-evaluation, particularly with schools; further development of CfE improved; Needs assessment; benchmarking and outcome focussed planning and evaluation


“ I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination”

So ………….

What’s on Education Scotland’s Horizon?


Consolidating links and work with SG colleagues across Directorates:

Building links with Housing, Health and Justice Taking forward recommendations from the Wood Report Developing and embedding the work with Scottish Prison Service Delivering the CLD actions in the CfE Implementation Plan Working with Youthlink and the Standards Council to deliver the

actions from the Youthwork Implementation Plan Working with the National Strategic Forum for Adult Learning on

delivering the key objectives


Working with the sector to build capacity to meet current challenges:

Short term working group on voluntary sector funding Piloting How Good is our Culture and Sport? within learning

community inspections Developing and piloting How Good is our Third Sector

Organisation? Developing work on community capacity building Continuing to build CLD’s profile with Curriculum for

Excellence – the CLD in CFE Review for February 2015 Contributing to an OECD review of Curriculum for Excellence

– June 2015


SO….

Over to you

• What’s on your on Horizon and what are our joint challenges?

• How can we meet those challenges by working together better?

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