The Scottish Government has launched Learning for Change: Scotland’s Action Plan for the Second Half of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. It recognises that more work is needed in the Community Learning and Development   field. Over the next five years the focus will be on four key areas within CLD:

• building community capacity to help the move towards sustainable living
• developing stronger links between Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and youth work
• improving communication and networks between ESD and CLD
• working to upskill the CLD workforce.

To help drive progress, the Scottish Government will set up a short-life working group with key partners from the CLD sector.

Further information on the actions that the Scottish Government and partners will undertake to help build links between ESD and the field of community learning and development is available online.