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Government
The Scottish Government
The Scottish Government is the devolved government for Scotland.
Learning Connections
The Community Learning and Development, and Adult Literacy and Numeracy
functions of Learning Connections, until recently part of Communities Scotland,
was integrated into the Directorate General for Education of the Scottish
Government and their website content is now located on the main Scottish
Government website.
The Scottish Housing Regulator
The Scottish Government's housing and regeneration agency.
Skills Development
Scotland
The partner organisations which are coming together to form Skills
Development Scotland are:
- Careers Scotland
- Scottish University for Industry (learndirect scotland, learndirect
scotland for business, ILA Scotland, The Big Plus)
- key skills elements from Scottish Enterprise
- key skills elements from Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Voluntary Sector
OSCR
The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) is the independent regulator
and registrar for Scottish charities. We regulate over 23,500 Scottish
charities including community groups, religious charities, schools,
universities, grant giving charities and major care providers
SCVO
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the umbrella body for
voluntary organisations in Scotland.
Volunteer Development Scotland
VDS promotes and supports volunteering in Scotland mainly by providing
information, training and support services for organisations which engage
voluntary workers.
Work with Us
A portal to the voluntary sector in Scotland.
Volresource
Useful information on anything to do with running a voluntary
organisation.
Adult Learning
NIACE
The National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education. Its work focuses on
England and Wales.
The Encyclopaedia of Informal
Education
A not for profit site providing learning tools and resources.
Scottish Further Education Unit
Working for Scotland's Colleges
Adult Literacies
Online ALO
Access a growing bank of Scottish based learning and
teaching resources, training materials and useful research and reports. Share
your own resources and knowledge by contributing to the site. Quickly find,
easily download and, where necessary, adapt the resources you want to suit your
teaching style and your learner needs.
BBC Skillswise
Online resource for adult literacy and numeracy.
CLD
Standards Council for Scotland
The CLD Standards Council is the new professional body for everyone active in
community learning and development in Scotland.
Communities of Practice
in Adult Literacies (CoPAL)
The Scottish Further Education Unit established a Communities of Practice to
inform and support practitioners
ESOL
Scotland
This is the national English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) website for
Scotland.
Financial Learning
Online FLO
FLO is for people who are involved in setting up and running financial learning
projects for adults in Scotland.
Money Matters
A financial education site developed by NIACE in partnership with Prudential.
It aims to widen access to learning about money matters for people with a wide
range of skills levels, and to enable learners to develop ICT and numeracy
skills.
SCQF
The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (The Framework) promotes
lifelong learning in Scotland
Partnership Working
Smarter Partnerships
The Smarter Partnerships website has a range of resources for personal and team
development.
Partnerships
Partnerships, participation and online communities.
VOiCE
VOiCE is a database planning and recording tool designed to assist individuals
and organisations to design and deliver effective community engagement. VOiCE
has been developed using funding from the Scottish Government as part of the
third year of support for the National Standards for Community Engagement.
Funding
The Big Lottery
Every year BIG gives out millions of pounds from the National Lottery to good
causes. Our money goes to community groups and to projects that improve health,
education and the environment.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
One of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK.
ESF Objective 3
Partnership
European Funding which helps disadvantaged groups in the community who are
excluded economically and socially.
JRCT
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Socrates-Grundtvig Programme for Adult Education
European Adult Education Initiative.
Third Enterprise Fund
The Scottish Government's Purpose is to create a more successful country, with
opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish through increasing sustainable
economic growth. An enterprising third sector has a key role to
play in achieving this goal.
Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust now includes learning as a priority area.
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