Minutes of Operational SMT Mtg

Minutes of CLDMS Quarterly Meeting Mitchell Library, Glasgow Monday 14th September, 2014

In Attendance: Bill Miller Stirling Council Neil Gunn Dundee Council Eric Whitfield East Renfrewshire Council Dot Grieve East Ayrshire Council Roz Gallagher South Lanarkshire Council John Tierney North Lanarkshire Council Ken Gibson Glasgow Life Simon Ross East Dunbartonshire Council Hazel Lindsay West Dunbartonshire Council Pablo Mascarhenas Highlife Highland Pam Crosthwaite North Ayrshire Council Clare Alexander Inverclyde Council Anne Clark Aberdeen City Council Oonagh McGarry Scottish Borders Council

Peter Taylor CLDMS

Items 1-3 Karen Geekie Education Scotland Jackie Halawi Education Scotland

Apologies: Maggie Paterson Inverclyde Council Laurence Reid Midlothian Council Graham Hewitson Angus Council Gail Woodcock Aberdeen City Council Tricia Illsley Perth & Kinross Council Elspeth Pollock Argyll & Bute Council Neil McLeod Western Isles Council Kerry Spence Orkney Islands Council Dinah Pountain Edinburgh City Council Norrie Tait Scottish Borders Council Karen Delaney Moray Council Annette Laird Midlothian Council

Phil Denning Education Scotland Jim Sweeney Youthlink Scotland

MINUTE ACTION 1. Seminar

Karen Geekie led a seminar discussion on Local Authority Responses to the CLD Regulations (Scotland) 2013 and the Implementation of the CLD Strategic Guidance. It was agreed that there should be continued sharing of practice.

2. Minutes

The minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of 16th June were agreed. There were no matters arising

3. Report from Education Scotland

Jackie Halawi reported:

 Information on the assessment criteria and awards made for the Innovation and Improvement Fund would be made available soon.  Further ‘bespoke’ seminars on CLD Plans would be held around the country  SCDC had produced a briefing on the Regulations and Guidance, primarily for its own networks  Education Scotland was involved in discussions on the implementation of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill  Discussions would be held on the future of inspections  Adult Learning Statement of Ambition: work on high level objectives for implementation was under way, and there would be further discussion with national stakeholders  More consistent, robust relationships with the 21 organisations in Strategic Funding Partnerships were being sought  The future of the three Stakeholder Reference Groups was being considered – they might become one group. Members were Members, asked to send any comments to Peter, and the EC would discuss EC the options.  The Youth Work Strategy Implementation Group was about to meet.

4. Executive Committee Report

1. Role and frequency of Executive and Quarterly Meetings. The EC had decided that no immediate constitutional amendment would be produced. It was agreed that it would be undesirable to hold EC and Quarterly meetings on the same day; but that greater efforts should be made to avoid duplication in agendas; the frequency of meetings should then be reviewed later. A definite EC offer of participation in EC meetings by video link should be made. 2. The next Quarterly Meeting should be given an opportunity to Quarterly discuss the implications of the referendum result Meeting 3. Peter outlined plans for the Annual Conference

5. Strategic Implementation Group

The action [points from the last meeting had been circulated and were noted. 6. Subgroups

1. Adult Learning The minute of the 21 August meeting was noted.. There had been a useful discussion on Gaelic provision. The National Forum was looking at an Action Plan for the Statement of Ambition and a variety of options for a Learners’ Voice.

Members were asked to provide examples of policy and practice in All digital participation to assist with a briefing on the CLD role. members

The meeting agreed to endorse the revised statement of the Social Peter Practice Model. This should be placed on the website and circulated to contacts.

2. Community Capacity Building The minute of the 22 August meeting was noted. The discussion on asset transfer would be continued at the Annual Conference. The EC had agreed to make a CLDMS submission to the Scottish Parliament Local Government and Regeneration Committee on the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill, and this had now been submitted. Ayrshire had held another inter-authority CCB event, and other areas were considering this.

3. Quality Improvement The minute of the 18 August meeting was noted. It was noted that there was still a lack of clarity about expectations of benchmarking. Three pilot areas were being assessed under ‘How Good is our Culture and Sport’.

4. Workforce Development The minute of the 2 September meeting was noted. Concern had been expressed about the limitations of Innovation and Improvement grants in promoting a strategic approach to workforce development. SDS were seeking meetings with local authorities to discuss what CLD information should be fed in to their national data hub.

5. Youth Work The minute of the 19 June and a verbal report of the 5 September meetings were noted. Members were considering an Adult Education Scotland request for participation in Curriculum, learning, Learning teaching and assessment forums. The Adult Learning Group should Group also consider this.

There had been a useful discussion of the Insight benchmarking tool and pupil profiling, which would be continued at Annual Conference.

A day event would be held to work on the proposed ‘suite of outcomes’ for youth work. CLDMS approval would then be sought Bill for this.

7. Representation on Outside Bodies

Reports had been circulated from:

 National Adult Learning Forum – Eric Whitfield  Learning for Sustainability – Nicola McAndrew  Youthlink Board - John McKnight  Pregnancy & Parenthood in Young People under 20 - Christine Boyle, for Liz Fergus  Adult Achievement Awards Steering Group – Cat Hester  Education Scotland Inspection Reference Group - Ken Peter, All Gibson. Five detailed questions had been drawn up on the members future of inspections. Peter would circulate these to members as a survey and pass the feedback to Ken.  SCQF Quality Committee - Ken Gibson. Ken explained the issue about whether using the SCQF in CLD is worth it, and how to make it work. It was agreed to continue the Ken discussion at Annual Conference. Ken would invite the SCQF Partnership, to participate.

10. AOCB

Thanks were expressed to Neil Gunn for his service as Chair, and to Glasgow Life for their hospitality.