Learning and Qualifications
As a national network organisation, our main aim is to support, develop and promote Community Development Learning at all levels. The Federation for Community Development Learning (FCDL) is keen to use our website to promote our own and other organisations' learning opportunities and resources.
Community Development practice promotes a collective process that enables people to act collectively while developing skills, knowledge and experiences that help support inclusive and participatory activities.
Update on progress made since Loughborough conference 2010
This section gives an overview of progress made around the key themes of the Putting Values into Practice: Community Development for Social Change conference which took place in April 2010 in Loughborough and involved 100 participants from
The Federation for Community Development Learning organised this conference in partnership with Community Development Exchange, Community Development Foundation, Community Development Cymru, Community Work education Training Network, Community Workers Co-operative Ireland, and the England Standards Board.
The key themes:
- Promoting the Community Development National Occupational Standards
- Developing the Community Development Learning and Qualifications Framework
- Taking forward the debate and action around whether to ‘professionalise’ the occupation of Community Development
- The Campaign for Community Development