APRIL 2017
LLS News - Policy Focus - Members and Partners News and Events
- Consultations - Resources
Learning Link Scotland News
We are very much looking forward to our second year of Children, Young
People and Families Early Intervention, Adult Learning Empowering
Communities funding.
Policy Focus
Statement of Ambition for Adult Learning and Family Learning
Learning Link Scotland sit on the Strategic Forum for the Statement of
Ambition for Adult Learning and Jackie Howie co-chairs the Professional
Learning Working Group. This group is running an event in collaboration
with the Family Learning Working Group and Dundee University:
Family Learning for Closing the Attainment Gap - Practitioner Voices
Friday 26 May 2017, 9.30 – 13.30, University of Dundee, Dalhousie 2G12
This event is for all Family Learning Practitioners in the different
roles across the sector. The event is an opportunity to explore the
current policy framework and creative practice approaches in Family
Learning. Speakers will offer perspectives on policy and practice and
you will be invited to debate what the sector can do to address the
attainment gap, a current Scottish Government education priority and
address the following questions:
- What can Family Learning practitioners proactively do as individuals to address the attainment gap?
- What collective actions are required by Family Learning
Practitioners, at all levels, to gain recognition in the Scottish
Education sector for the value of non-formal and informal learning
provision to address the attainment gap?
Soup provided but bring your own sandwich.
For more information contact Ann Swinney
a.z.swinney@dundee.ac.uk or Jackie Howie
jhowie@learninglinkscotland.org.uk
Members and Partners News and Events
Crisis - Ending homelessness: working together to think differently
Monday 15 May 2017, Time: 9.30 – 4.30pm, Drinks reception: 4.30pm – 6.30pm
The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU, Book now £50
As Crisis celebrate the launch of their 50th year, join them for a
conversation on how to end homelessness. This interactive event will be
the start of an exciting programme of activity over the coming year to
develop a plan to end homelessness once and for all.
Speakers include:
- Mel Young, President, Homeless World Cup, and recognised as one of
the world’s leading social entrepreneurs by the Schwab Foundation for
Social Entrepreneurship.
- Roseanne Haggerty, founder, Community Solutions, USA - a
world leader in developing innovative community based solutions to
tackling homelessness, including the 100,000 Homes Campaign.
- Naomi Eisenstadt CB, the First Minister’s independent adviser on
poverty and inequality, former director of the Social Exclusion Task
Force.
The day will bring together homelessness and housing professionals from
across the country, alongside international speakers, renowned thought
leaders, policy and practice experts and people with expertise by
experience to help shape the future agenda on ending homelessness.
For more information and to book your place, follow this link:
Book now
COSLA Event
COSLA is hosting a series of free events across Scotland to share
practice around delivering ESOL to adult resettled Syrians in Scotland.
These events are funded through the UK Government’s Syrian Resettlement
Scheme.
The events are for everyone involved in planning and delivering ESOL,
including those making decisions at strategic level and those delivering
ESOL directly.
There will be an event in Edinburgh on Monday, 22 May (10:00 am to 1:00 pm) at
COSLA, Verity House, 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh, EH12 5BH.
You can book a place using
this online form or call me on
0141 428 3972
For more information contact Ann Elliott at
ann.elliott@researchscotland.org
Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe
EPALE are currently in the process of looking for EPALE UK
Ambassadors to join the growing network. This is a light touch role
(voluntary), and involvement can be large or small, depending on how
much time someone can give. We are looking for adult learning
professionals across the UK and from a range of sectors to:
Please see the attached
Information Sheet if you are interested.
Follow the links below to find out more about our current EPALE UK ambassadors:
https://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/blog/introducing-epale-uk-ambassadors
Community Development Alliance Scotland
CDAS has produced a new booklet
'How Community Development Happens: Why stronger communities matter and what it takes to develop them' which invites people to think about what it takes to develop and support stronger communities.
Evaluation Support Scotland
The new Knowledge Translation Network (KTN) publication “Evidence from
Elsewhere: Gathering, analysing and using other people’s evidence” was
launched on 22 March at an event hosted by Big Lottery Fund Scotland in
Glasgow. You can download your copy from
here.
Using other people’s evidence can be useful to fill gaps in your
evidence or to help make a case for a new service or project. The
guide is packed with lots of tips and advice useful for anyone wanting
to use secondary evidence, in other words… other people’s evidence.
The guide is part of a series of publications Evidence for Success and Collaborating with academics
Volunteer Glasgow
The Smarter Volunteer Manager Training Programme
Next programme starts 1st Jun; then continues 15th Jun; 29th Jun; 13th Jul 2017
For Project Leaders, Volunteer Coordinators, Managers of volunteering
programmes, Strategic lead officers, Members of governing bodies
Effective partnerships are the cornerstone of everything Volunteer
Glasgow do. In providing training over the last 12 years, they
have worked with hundreds of organisations – refining their approach to
meet your challenges, culminating in these learning sets.
Drawing on an Action Learning Set approach, this tried and tested
programme runs over four, half-day sessions spaced two weeks apart.
Offering a fusion of mentoring, inquisitorial discussion, small-group
exercises and individual study, there will be opportunities created
between sessions to explore how far the learning can be applied.
Further details are available here:
http://www.volunteerglasgow.org/organise/managing/help/smarter-volunteer-manager/
WEA Scotland
Legacies of Resistance to the First World War
The WEA Scotland project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund seeks to
empower learners to uncover the stories of Scotland’s conscientious
objectors during the First World War, bringing to light their
experiences and how objection shaped their lives and communities
following the war.
What compelled people to say no and refuse to fight or take part in the
First World War? What did this mean to communities across Scotland? How
were conscientious objectors able to gain exemption? Who supported or
opposed them?
This project will empower learners to uncover the stories that have
shaped their communities and share them with others across the country.
LOCATIONS: Dundee, Edinburgh & Glasgow
DURATION: This is a 2-year project; the first course commences the last week of April 2017. Further details to follow.
FORMAT: The project will offer a number of 8 week
courses, with one 2-hour session a week, alongside events and other
learning opportunities
If you would like further information about the project (or the specific courses) please contact Nik Williams at
n.williams@wea.org.uk
National Digital Learning Week
National Digital Learning Week
will take place from the 15 – 19 May. This year the theme of the week
will be ‘Digital Difference’. Further information on how you can
participate is available
here.
European News - LLLWeek2017
Lifelong Learning Week 2017
LLLWeek2017
will take place on 20-24 November in Brussels. This year the week will
be organised in partnership with the European Commission and its
Vocational Education and Training Week
VET Week.
Along with the traditional debates and events in the European Parliament, the LLLWeek will also celebrate the
LLLAwards2017, this year on the topic Education in a Digital World,
submissions can be made by following the link.
CLD and the Scottish Attainment Challenge - Education Scotland
The recent announcement of the
Pupil Equity Fund
for schools is an opportunity for the CLD sector to engage directly
with head teachers and schools around developing interventions. The
Interventions for Equity is a developing piece of work with examples from across Scotland of interventions that are also addressing the attainment gap.
Consultations
Scottish Government
Social Security
Social security in Scotland will be designed and built with and for the
people of Scotland, and Experience Panels will turn that principle into a
reality. The Scottish Government are seeking at least 2,000 people with
direct personal experience of the current social security system to
help shape Scotland’s new system.
Scottish Government will work with people who have direct and personal
experience and knowledge of the current one to find out from them what
works, what needs improved and what the new system can do to support
them.
Invitations have been sent by post to 18,000 people who have recent or
current experience of the social security system. People can also
volunteer directly to join the Experience Panels by completing the
registration form
online or
downloading it and posting it back to the Scottish Government by freepost.
Experience Panels resources - including posters etc – can be downloaded.
There’s also a freephone helpline 0800 029 4974 (which includes language
translation and BSL interpretation) if people have questions about
getting involved in the Panels, or if they need additional support to
register. Registration is open until 12 May.
More information:
www.gov.scot/socialsecurity
https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishGovernment
@scotgovfairer #scotsocialsecurity
Resources
Dyslexia Scotland
Addressing Dyslexia Toolkit
The Toolkit is a free online resource designed for teachers and local
authority staff to provide information and guidance on supporting
learners with dyslexia and literacy difficulties.
The
new toolkit
was re-launched on the 8 March by the Deputy First Minister. The
toolkit provides easier navigation, new sections and free resources for
teachers, schools and local authorities to support and improve practice,
knowledge and understanding of dyslexia and inclusive practice.
Introduction to Dyslexia and Inclusive Practice
Dyslexia and Inclusive Practice is the first of three free online
modules developed in response to Recommendations 1 and 2 of the 2014
Education Scotland Review
Making Sense of Dyslexia: Education for Children and Young People with Dyslexia in Scotland.
This short module has been developed with the Open University and the
Making Sense Working Group and is designed to provide an introduction
for teachers, community educators and anyone with an interest in
developing positive approaches to supporting dyslexia in their inclusive
practice.
Family Learning
Education Scotland has published its new
Family Learning Review
- the first of its kind in Scotland. The review provides illustrations
of international and national good practice around family learning and
provides guidance on how to develop family learning models that work for
both families, adults and children.
The review emphasises the important contribution that community learning
and development makes to family learning. For many adults a family
learning programme can be the first step to taking up further adult
learning and training opportunities, gaining a job or developing new
skills. For children, this can have a positive impact on their
individual attainment and learning journey. This review will help
practitioners develop programmes of family learning that are recognised
and make a real difference.
Funding
Scottish Book Trust Live Literature School Residencies 2017-18
The programme will
offer 10 schools, early years or nurseries in Scotland a fully-funded
author-in-residence. Each residency will contain 12 sessions carried out
by one author from our database. Our database includes over 700
professional writers, poets, playwrights, spoken word artists,
illustrators, graphic novelists, screenwriters and storytellers.
Residencies should inspire a love of creative writing and reading.
Next Deadline: 17 May 2017
Jobs
Education Scotland
Please see the updated secondment advert on the Education Scotland website which may be of interest:
https://education.gov.scot/who-we-are/Current%20vacancies
Reports
Carnegie UK - What Do Citizens Want?
How do people experience public services in their everyday lives? How
can professional help and support enable us to do the things that are
important to us and support networks of friends, family and community?
When does it get in the way?
These are questions that the
What Do Citizens Want
project in partnership with the University of Edinburgh, What Works
Scotland, Loretto Housing, Link and Blackwood Homes and Care are
exploring. The project will provide new insights from a citizen
perspective about how to deliver more enabling services.
Education Scotland - Community Learning and Development
Education Scotland has recently published a new report,
Community Learning and Development (CLD) Planning: An aspect review of progress made in implementing the CLD Regulations. This sits alongside and complements the previously published
Community Learning and Development Plans 2015-18: Planning for change in Scotland's communities.
This review of CLD planning focuses on strategic level planning and
arrangements within local authorities and community planning
partnerships to implement the CLD Regulations.
News
Launch of the Mental Health Strategy March 2017
This 10 year
plan includes a number of actions including:
- Roll out improved mental health training for those who support young people in educational settings.
- Commission the development of a Matrix of evidence-based
interventions to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and
young people.
Seminar
The Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity
CREID Seminar - HE, Funding & Access: Scotland & the UK in International Perspective
The Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity (CREID) is
pleased to extend a warm invitation to you and your colleagues to join
our seminar
Higher Education, Funding & Access: Scotland & the UK in International Perspective, to be held at the University of Edinburgh on the 31st August between 9:30am and 3:30pm.