A possible framework: The Learning in Regeneration

Skills Pack

Jim Carruth Skills and Learning Manager

Learning in Regeneration Skills Pack

Background and Development

Presentation Aims

• Big Questions

• Background research

• The Skills Framework for Community Regeneration

• Developing the pack

• Introduction to Learning in Regeneration skills pack

• Next Stages

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?

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

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

Skills and competencies for community research

• Needs analysis and framework • University of Glasgow

• Started November 2003

• Completed June 2004

Research Approach

• Literature Review• Review Current Training

Provision• Postal Survey• Telephone interviews and

Focus groups• Stakeholder interviews and Focus group• Consultation and Testing

Survey Findings

• Diversity of backgrounds• Experience of multiple

Partnerships• Variety of roles• Strong agreement on

required skills• High level of skill needs

Survey findings – Learning Methods

• Experience of a number of learning methods

• Preference to meeting and communicating with people

• Interest for sharing of learning

Skills Framework

• Review of current frameworks

• Idea positively received

• Preference for non prescriptive

• Need for flexibility

• Positioning of skills

PROCESS SKILLSenabling change

Adaptability and flexibilityUnderstanding other roles

Negotiation and conflict managementPartnership working

Working in and with communitiesWorking in an inclusive/ non-discriminatory way

Listening and communicationAbility to learn

PRACTICAL SKILLSdelivering change

Managing staff/ volunteersMonitoring and evaluation

Project planning and managementOrganisational development and planning

Financial managementFundraising and funding applications

Time management

STRATEGIC SKILLSinitiating/ promoting change

Strategy formationLeadership

Risk taking and enterpriseCreative thinking

Understanding policies/ resourcesPolitical awareness and judgement

Understanding local needs/ contexts

SPECIFIC SKILLSSkills and competencies specific to

Particular professions and community representatives

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.

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

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

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

Four specific pieces of work

• Volunteer Development Scotland

• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

• Linked Work and Training Trust

• Glasgow City Council

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

The Sections

1. Introduction

2. Finding out what you need to learn

3. Deciding what you want to achieve

4. Learning about learning

5. Meeting your learning needs

6. Valuing what you’ve achieved

7. Developing a learning system for your organisation

8. Helping others to learn

Who’s 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

Who’s 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

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

How could you use it?

•Stand alone

•Appraisal or performance

management system

•Personal development

•Career planning

How could you use it?

•Existing courses

•Continuous professional

development

•Mentoring or coaching

•Team building

•Group / Partnership working

What’s Next?

• Roll out and support

• New partnershipsProfessional bodies

Training providers

Community members

….And others

• Case studies

• Ongoing evaluation

Skills for Regeneration Regeneration Skills Pack

Surf Open Forum Thursday 26th January 2006