The Requirements for Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 2013
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | SSI 2013/175 |
2013 No. 175
Education
The Requirements for Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 2013
Made 29th May 2013
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 31th May 2013
Coming into force 1st September 2013
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Education (Scotland) Act 19801and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Requirements for Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st September 2013.
(2) In these Regulations—
“community learning and development” includes programmes of learning and activities designed with individuals and groups to promote the educational and social development of those individuals and groups; and
“target individuals and groups” means those individuals and groups that the education authority considers, having regard to the needs of the communities within the area of the education authority, are most likely to benefit from the provision of community learning and development.
Assessment of community learning and development needs
2. An education authority is required to initiate and, having done so, to maintain and facilitate a process by which community learning and development secured within the area of the education authority is secured in a way that—
(a) identifies target individuals and groups;
(b) has regard to the needs of those target individuals and groups for that community learning and development;
(c) assesses the degree to which those needs are already being met; and
(d) identifies barriers to the adequate and efficient provision of that community learning and development.
3. In exercise of the requirement in regulation 2, the education authority is to take such action as it thinks fit with a view to securing that the following persons are involved in and consulted on the process—
(a) persons appearing to the education authority to be representative of the target individuals and groups; and
(b) persons appearing to the education authority to be representative of persons providing community learning...
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