Community Learning and Development is a field of professional practice that enables people to identify their own individual and collective goals, to engage in learning and take action to bring about change for themselves and their communities. It uses a range of formal and informal methods of learning and social development with individuals and groups in their communities.

Community Learning and Development programmes and activities are developed in dialogue with communities and participants, working particularly with those excluded from participation in the decisions and processes that shape their lives. Through working in these ways, it extends the reach of democracy and widens its scope.

The Scottish Community Learning and Development Standards Council website hosts a range of resources and tool  including a Competence Framework, practitioner stories, code of ethics and professional development planning tools. 

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