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Community Learning and Development

 

The Community Learning and Development (CL&D) Section is structured to meet both the learning and development needs of local people and to address the National Priorities for Community Learning and Development as laid down by the Scottish Government.

 

CL&D have produced a general leaflet that gives an overview of their work in West Dunbartonshire. For further information please contact the team.

 

Word file: A guide to Community Learning and Development (3 MB)

 

There are some PDFs documents in this section. The Adobe Reader required for PDFs can be downloaded for free from the Adobe website.

 

Working in partnership with other council departments, partner agencies and community groups, the Council's CL&D Section provides a wide range of services including courses (vocational & non vocational), training, groups and clubs for young people and support to community groups and organisations throughout West Dunbartonshire.

 

Community Learning and Development has four sub-teams:

 

 

 

 

 

First Aid, Child Development, Interior Design, Public Speaking, Committee Skills, Cookery,

Community Learning & Development Team Logo

External Links

Learning Connections

 

Scottish Adult Learning Partnership

 

Youth Link Scotland

 

Scottish Community Development Centre

 

National ESOL Strategy

the Community Learning and Development team gathered together
Some of the CL&D team

Literacy, Computing, Advertising & Marketing are just some of the Community based learning and development opportunities available in West Dunbartonshire.

 

These teams provide an extensive range of opportunities throughout West Dunbartonshire and each have their own pages information on current activities, recent successes, staff contact details and future course programmes.

Community Centres

The CL&D Section are also in charge of 9 Community Centres across the West Dunbartonshire area. The Community Centres have their own programmes with the latest details of community groups and sporting activities.

Newsletters and Progress reports

Progress reports are completed by the four sub-teams within the Community Learning & Development Section on a regular basis. These reports outline the team's ongoing work commitments and describe particular projects being undertaken.

 

The CL&D Progress reports are made available to provide some background to the

work and responsibilities of the Section and provide a better context for the following CL&D work.

Working and learning together

An information leaflet on the partnership working approach of CL&D is available. 

This details the Community Learning, Development and Guidance Strategy Partnership within West Dunbartonshire.

 

PDF file: Partnership working approach summary (453 KB)

Setting the Standard in West Dunbartonshire

West Dunbartonshire Council has a number of corporate service standards to ensure we deliver high quality services to you. Each of our individual services also has standards relevant to the services they deliver.

 

PDF file: Service standards (205 KB)

 

We will monitor performance against these standards annually and report on our performance to you in our Quarterly Performance Report.

Contact Us

For any further information about the work the Community Learning and Development section do in West Dunbartonshire please contact the team.