involving partners
in evidencing impact
David Young – North Lanarkshire Council
involving partners
•North Lanarkshire Council CLD Service
in evidencing impact
•North Lanarkshire Partnership
•North Lanarkshire CLD Partnership
•Local Action Planning
David Young – North Lanarkshire Council
•Evidencing Impact / Examples
North Lanarkshire Council CLD Service
•Single combined CLD service
•6 Locality Teams (Community
Plan)
•Lifelong Learning / Youth Work /
CCB Sub Teams
•Part of Learning & Leisure
Services
North Lanarkshire Partnership
North Lanarkshire Partnership
North Lanarkshire Partnership brings together the major public and
voluntary sector agencies in the area and has a responsibility for taking
forward the development and implementation of the Community Plan
and Single Outcome Agreement in North Lanarkshire.
The Community Planning Partners are:
•North Lanarkshire Council
•NHS Lanarkshire
•Strathclyde Fire & Rescue
•Jobcentre Plus
•The Voluntary Sector
•Strathclyde Police
•Scottish Enterprise
•Further Education Colleges
•Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
North Lanarkshire Partnership
To further encourage joined up working across partners, five key
themes have been identified for the Community Plan. These five key
themes are:
•Health and Wellbeing
•Community Safety
•Environment
•Lifelong Learning
•Regeneration
•Healthier
•Safer & Stronger
•Greener
•Smarter
•Wealthier & Fairer
The key themes are broadly aligned with the Scottish Government’s
strategic objectives. The Community Plan and the Single Outcome
Agreement align the Partnership’s local outcomes with the 15 national
outcomes.
North Lanarkshire Partnership
North Lanarkshire’s Working
North Lanarkshire CLD Partnership
North Lanarkshire CLD Partnership
Background
2004 – 2008
‘Working and Learning Together’ was published by the Scottish Executive,
outlining the national priorities for Community Learning and Development.
In 2004, the North Lanarkshire CLD Partnership introduced a document
outlining its strategy for 2004-2008.
2008 – 2010
The Partnership agreed to extend the strategy for 2008-2010. In November
2008, a joint statement was issued by COSLA and the Scottish
Government, Building on “Working and Learning Together to Build Stronger
Communities”: the role of Community Learning and Development (CLD) in
delivery change.
North Lanarkshire CLD Partnership
Current Work
The Partnership created a new strategy for 20102012, which took into account significant local and
national change.
The CLD Partnership Strategy includes clear
Outcomes & Indicators and forms the basis on
which partners, including the Council, measures
progress in relation to the Community Plan.
The Strategy links to the six local CLD
Partnerships within North Lanarkshire, with each
Partnership creating their own Action Plan.
North Lanarkshire CLD Partnership
Key Actions
1. Increase opportunities for learners to achieve accreditation outwith national
qualifications within a community based setting
2. Increase opportunities for learners to achieve national qualifications within a
community based setting
3. Increase pre-vocational and vocational learning opportunities to assist adults in
the transition to employment
4. Establish learning hubs to increase the learning opportunities for young people
aged 16-19 in order to support positive transitions
5. Increase sustainable opportunities for progression and positive destinations for
the 16+ age group
6. Increase learning opportunities targeted at the 50+ age group
North Lanarkshire CLD Partnership
Key Actions
7. Maintain a range of learning opportunities to address needs relating to Adult
Literacy and Numeracy and English for Speakers of Other Languages
8. Support learners to acquire the skills and knowledge to make healthier choices
relating to their personal health and lifestyle
9. Up skill the CLD Partnership workforce to increase its capacity and its ability to
meet targets in relation to the Community Plan.
10. Maintain support to the voluntary sector to enhance the capacity of community
based organisations
11. Maintain support to assist communities to address community safety and
environmental issues
Local Action Planning
Planning takes place at a variety of levels in North Lanarkshire. This can
be done directly through Community Planning Partnership structures, such
as Local Area Partnerships and Local Area Teams, or through specific
groups looking at topics such as GIRFEC, Youth Offending, etc.
Through the North Lanarkshire CLD
Partnership, each of the six local
Partnerships have created a CLD Action
Plan. The Outcomes and Indicators within
these Action Plans have been combined
within one strategic document, providing a
clear framework for measuring and
evaluating CLD services in the area.
Outcomes
and Indicators
2010 – 2012
(June 2009)
Coatbridge College
NL Community Learning & Development (LL Services)
Cumbernauld College
NL CVS
John Wheatley College
NL Libraries (LL Service)
Motherwell College
Skills Development Scotland
NL Regeneration
Local Action Planning
Example Outcome & Indicators
Corporate Plan Key Theme:
Lifelong Learning
National Outcomes:
3 – We are better educated, more skilled and more
successful
4 – Our young people are successful learners, confident
individuals, effective contributors and responsible
citizens
Strategic Measure of Success: Raising Achievement for All
Corporate & Community Plan
Outcome:
Corporate Plan Key Theme
National Outcomes
Strategic Measure of Success
CLD Partnership Indicators
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CLD Partner Responsible (Colours)
Improved learner accreditation within national
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Number gaining SQA Core Skills IT qualifications through CL&D
Number gaining SQA Core Skills Communication qualifications through CL&D
Number age gaining SQA Core Skills Numeracy qualifications through CL&D
Number gaining SQA Core Skills Working with Others qualifications through CL&D
Number gaining SQA Core Skills Problem Solving qualifications through CL&D
Number gaining SQA ESOL qualifications through CL&D
Number gaining SQA qualifications (excluding Core Skills and ESOL) through
CL&D
Number gaining national qualifications (not SQA) through CL&D
Number gaining SQA qualifications through LCP’
Number gaining national qualifications (not SQA) through LCP’s
Numbers achieving qualifications through Motherwell College LCP’ (Community
Programmes)
Numbers achieving qualifications through Motherwell College Core Skill
Communication and Numeracy Programmes. (Contributing to ALN Management
Strategic Plans)
Numbers registered on Women’s Placement Programme (WPP) operated within
Motherwell College CPP activity
Numbers registered on Vocational Taster Programme operated within Motherwell
College CPP activity
Numbers registered on community based Motherwell College NON LCP
programmes
Numbers registered on certificated programmes through Viewpark MCMC hub at
Focus Youth Centre
Numbers registered on Craigneuk Action Plan Plus (APP) operated within CPP
activity in partnership with RTW LTD
Number gaining SQA qualifications through LCP’
Number gaining national qualifications (not SQA) through LCP’s
Number gaining SQA qualifications through Widening Access Programme (WAP)
Number gaining national qualifications (not SQA) through Widening Access
Programme (WAP)
Number gaining SQA Core Skills Communication qualifications through Prince’s
Trust partnership
Number gaining SQA Social Awareness and Development qualifications through
Prince’s Trust partnership
Number of Skillseekers / Modern Apprentices successfully achieving work-based
accreditation
Percentage of young people in education, employment and training
Number gaining Core Skills SQA qualifications through the New Opportunities Programme
Number gaining SQA Guidance Units through the New Opportunities Programme
Evidencing Impact
Areas that have a strong history of partnership working, such
as North Lanarkshire, seem to be making the most progress in
involving partners in jointly evidencing impact.
…having one clear plan where the CLD outcomes are
succinctly linked to area/city outcomes and national outcomes:
for example Edinburgh’s CLD Service Plan, Supporting
Communities 2011-2014, and North Lanarkshire’s Outcomes
and Indicators 2010-12 document.
..working with partners to evidence impact: Scottish Borders; North Lanarkshire
where they jointly record learners numbers on their MIS and in their Outcomes and
Indicators 2010-12 Document clearly highlighting which partners contribute to
which of the joint outcomes (by measuring particular indicators).
Evidencing Impact
•CLD Partnership Strategy and associated Outcomes & Indicators
•Partnership Planning (e.g. LEAP, Cognisoft Action Plans, etc)
•Joint Delivery and Funding of Projects
•Management Information Systems / Information Sharing
•Joint Performance Reporting via CCP and Single Outcome Agreement
•Joint Self Evaluation (e.g. HGIOCLD, VSE, etc)
•Joint Recording and Celebration of Achievement
•Example of Partnership: NL Activity Agreement
YOUR FUTURE IS NEXT. START MAKING IT.
Partners involved in the delivery of the
Activity Agreement include:
•Community Learning &
Development
•Colleges
•Job Centre Plus
•NHS Lanarkshire
•North Lanarkshire’s Working
•Regeneration Services
•Schools
•Skills Development Scotland
•Social Work
•Training Providers
•Routes To Work
•Voluntary Action North
Lanarkshire
•Voluntary Organisations
•YMCA
Evidencing Impact
“Partnership work is very well developed at local level. CLD services
work effectively in a range of productive partnerships with other
services such as health and police. The Council CLD service offers
effective leadership locally. Staff effectively measure and plan their
work. The CLD strategic partnership encourages joint working across
a wide range of agencies. Partners actively engage in decision
making. There is trust, shared goals and lack of competition between
partners. Partners support each other in their work. This has reduced
duplication and ensures that resources are used where they are
needed most.”
Dalziel High School Learning Community Inspection 2008
Evidencing Impact
Discussion Points
1. What formal partnerships exist within your own
learning community?
2. How is impact currently measured across local
partnerships?
3. What could be improved to ensure that joint
planning, delivery and evaluation is consistent?
Evidencing Impact
Contacts:
David Young, CLD Development Officer
YoungDav@northlan.gov.uk
John Tierney, CLD Development Manager
TierneyJ@northlan.gov.uk