Regeneration: The Approach in Scotland

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A possible framework The Learning in
Regeneration Skills Pack

Jim Carruth Skills and Learning Manager
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Learning in Regeneration Skills Pack

Background and Development
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Presentation Aims

• Big Questions
• Background research
• The Skills Framework for Community Regeneration
• Developing the pack
• Introduction to Learning in Regeneration skills
  pack
• Next Stages

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Big Questions

• Are there key skills in regeneration?
• What are they?
• Will all partners agree ?
• Can these facilitate shared learning?
• What practical supports are required?

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What do we mean by key skills ?

• A set of golf clubs
• Any golfer
• Any golf course
• Any hole
• Any part of the hole

• Set of skills
• Any individual
• Any community
• Any project within that community
• Any aspect of the project

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Background Research

• Scottish Social Inclusion Network
• - Making it Happen report
• SURF initiated debate
• Research
• - Working Together Learning
• Together
• - Coherent Diversity
• Work in England
• - The Learning Curve
• - Egan Report

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Skills and competencies for community research

• Needs analysis and framework
• University of Glasgow
• Started November 2003
• Completed June 2004

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Research Approach

• Literature Review
• Review Current Training Provision
• Postal Survey
• Telephone interviews and Focus groups
• Stakeholder interviews and Focus group
• Consultation and Testing

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Survey Findings

• Diversity of backgrounds
• Experience of multiple Partnerships
• Variety of roles
• Strong agreement on required skills
• High level of skill needs

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Survey findings Learning Methods

• Experience of a number of learning methods
• Preference to meeting and communicating with
  people
• Interest for sharing of learning

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Skills Framework

• Review of current frameworks
• Idea positively received
• Preference for non prescriptive
• Need for flexibility
• Positioning of skills

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PROCESS SKILLS enabling change Adaptability and
flexibility Understanding other roles Negotiation
and conflict management Partnership
working Working in and with communities Working
in an inclusive/ non-discriminatory way Listening
and communication Ability to learn
SPECIFIC SKILLS Skills and competencies specific
to Particular professions and community
representatives
STRATEGIC SKILLS initiating/ promoting
change Strategy formation Leadership Risk taking
and enterprise Creative thinking Understanding
policies/ resources Political awareness and
judgement Understanding local needs/ contexts
PRACTICAL SKILLS delivering change Managing
staff/ volunteers Monitoring and
evaluation Project planning and
management Organisational development and
planning Financial management Fundraising and
funding applications Time management
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Aim of Learning in Regeneration Support Pack
To enable everyone working within Community
Regeneration to identify their learning needs and
to be able to find creative ways of meeting these
needs.
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Development of Pack

• People Matters
• Desk Research and interviews
• Development of draft pack 1
• Trials (Jan March 2005)
• Development of draft pack 2
• Pilot (June November 2005)
• Production of final pack

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How have we tested the pack?

• Adult literacy community planning partnership,
  Galashiels
• Castlemilk economic development agency
• Communities Scotland regeneration team
• Community Links Hamilton

• Gairloch and Loch Ewe Community Action Group
• Grampian Social Enterprise Network
• Highland Council
• The Glasgow centre for Inclusive Living
• The Scottish Council for Minorities

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How have we tested the pack?

• Community Links West Dunbartonshire
• Coupar Angus Regeneration Trust
• The ECHO project, Dumfries
• Stobswell Community Planning Partnership, Dundee
• Temple Shafton Youth Project, Glasgow

• The Richmond Fellowship (Scotland)
• Shetland Community Planning Partnership
• Southside Housing Association, Glasgow
• Yorkhill Housing Association, Glasgow

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Four specific pieces of work

• Volunteer Development Scotland
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Linked Work and Training Trust
• Glasgow City Council

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What is the Learning in Regeneration Skills Pack?

• Personalised development pack
• Stand alone sections
• Language
• Navigation
• Time needed
• Action points
• Further help
• Points to ponder
• CD Rom
• Print further copies
• Customise forms
• Built to last

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The Sections

• Introduction
• Finding out what you need to learn
• Deciding what you want to achieve
• Learning about learning
• Meeting your learning needs
• Valuing what youve achieved
• Developing a learning system for your
  organisation
• Helping others to learn

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Whos it for?

• EXAMPLES
• Community Learning and Development staff
• Community representatives and activists
• Front line volunteers
• Front line volunteers working with ethnic groups
• Advisors and advocates for people with specific
  physical or learning needs
• Local authority economic planning department
  staff

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Whos it for

• EXAMPLES
• Local health partnership information
  officers
• Local enterprise company staff
• Community planning partnerships
• Members of professional bodies
• Police, Fire service and others
• working within a community
• Housing associations
• Elected members

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Why would you use it?

• To reinforce what someone already knows and is
  really good at
• It helps individuals to identify their skill
  needs and find ways of meeting them
• It offers a systematic approach that helps
  everyone to identify exactly what they need to
  learn

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How could you use it?

• Stand alone
• Appraisal or performance
• management system
• Personal development
• Career planning

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How could you use it?

• Existing courses
• Continuous professional
• development
• Mentoring or coaching
• Team building
• Group / Partnership working

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Whats Next?

• Roll out and support
• New partnerships
• Professional bodies
• Training providers
• Community members
• .And others
• Case studies
• Ongoing evaluation

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Skills for Regeneration Regeneration Skills Pack

Surf Open Forum Thursday 26th January 2006