Welcome to Education Scotland’s Community Learning & Development information portal. This site aims to support practitioners by providing them access to news and updates that will be useful in their work with children, young people, adults, families and communities.

For further information or to discuss support that we can offer please contact your local CLD Officer: Local Authority contacts

You can explore the Education Scotland professional learning offer for CLD here: Professional learning for Community Learning and Development | National approach to professional learning | Professional Learning | Education Scotland

This site is specifically for information sharing however in future releases it will contain links to resources.

Latest News & Information

Challenge Poverty Week 2025 September 10, 2025

  For Challenge Poverty Week this year we have produced a one page newsletter CPW 2025 Newsletter CLD that collates some of our resources to support challenging poverty and promotes our webinar taking place during Challenge Poverty Week itself   Read more

Education Scotland CLD Secondment Opportunity: Mentors in Violence Prevention September 8, 2025

Education Scotland are currently offering a secondment as a Development Officer to support the national implementation of the Mentors In Violence Prevention Programme (MVP). Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) supports a whole-school approach to gender-based violence prevention. It is a peer education leadership programme in which senior pupils are trained… Read more

Recruitment for Education Scotland Associates (CLD) September 5, 2025

We are seeking applications for Education Scotland Associates (ESA) with a specialism in Community Learning and Development (CLD) for roles which will focus on enhancing practice through digital approaches and/or stakeholder engagement.  The posts are on a part-time, pro rata basis and will be based throughout Scotland. Base location can… Read more

Join us on September 16th or October 3rd to discuss how a refocused Education Scotland can support the CLD Sector September 3, 2025

Following on from our recently published CLD Discussion Paper, which you can find on this blog, can we please invite you to one of these two online sessions. They will be an opportunity to share your perspectives on the discussion paper and how Education Scotland’s support for CLD should develop.… Read more

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