Scotland’s new skills strategy – Skills for Scotland – was launched in September. The comments on “transition and progression” perhaps show a recognition of the community learning and development dimension: “For some of the hardest-to-reach individuals, greater support is needed to help them in their initial engagement in learning and in the community and economy, through developing skills in literacy, numeracy, problem solving and communication, to enable their involvement as active, effective contributors to their communities and to the wider economy and society.”