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.

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Latest News & Information

Keeping the conversations going: Feedback from Education Scotland’s Community Learning and Development (CLD) Stakeholder webinars November 17, 2025

Throughout 2025, we’ve been exploring what the changes at Education Scotland (ES) should mean for our CLD support. These discussions have been extremely helpful in shaping our plans and CLD stakeholders have encouraged us to continue to engage with them as the refocused ES takes shape. In August, we published… Read more

Youth Voice Toolkit: Professional Learning November 6, 2025

We have released new dates for PL on the Youth Voice Toolkit. Find more information in our events area or sign up directly at the links below: Youth Voice Toolkit: Professional Learning (November) Tickets, Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM | Eventbrite Youth Voice Toolkit: Professional Learning (December) Tickets,… Read more

News from Scottish Men’s Sheds Association October 16, 2025

The Scottish Men’s Shed Association (SMSA) charity was constitutionally formed on the 30th September 2014 and officially launched in November 2015 with the aim of helping new and existing groups to set up and run a Men’s Shed in their local community across Scotland. The Scottish Men’s Sheds Association (SMSA)… Read more

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

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