STRATEGIC COMMUNITY LEARNING GROUP

Training Subgroup Report 2026

A TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS WAS UNDERTAKEN BY THE CLD PARTNERSHIP TRAINING SUBGROUP IN 2023.

TRAINING WAS REQUESTED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

IN REGARD TO HOW AND WHEN THIS TRAINING SHOULD BE DELIVERED:

• 77% SAID THEY WOULD PREFER FACE TO FACE WITH 69% STATING THEY WOULD LIKE ONLINE, MANY PUT BOTH.
• 70% WOULD LIKE IT DURING THE DAY, ONLY 23% SAID IN THE EVENING.
• 54% SAID THEY WOULD PREFER IT DURING THE WEEK, ONLY 15% WOULD PREFER TRAINING AT A WEEKEND.

Training that partners could offer:

In regard to how and when this training could be delivered:

• 77% said they would prefer face to face with 62% stating they would like online. (Many put either)
• 62% would prefer to deliver the training during the day, 46% said they could deliver in the evening.
• 69% said they would prefer it during the week and 46% would prefer running training at a weekend.

IMAGE: Two photographs showing training activity: people preparing food in a kitchen and a group of participants seated at tables during a training session.

Mental Health Awareness

Mental Health Awareness was the most requested training, so a 3-tiered approach was agreed with NHS Orkney staff comprising of Informed level (suitable for anyone), skilled level (for staff and volunteers likely to be dealing with mental health support) and enhanced level (for staff dealing with significant mental health requirements).

Members of the Training Subgroup from VAO, CLDE and Education undertook training to deliver the NHSO Orkney Save a Life training session. It was agreed that the CLD Training Partnership would deliver the training face to face at alternative times to NHS Orkney who deliver the training online, every three months. Save a life training was offered by the CLD Partnership Training subgroup three times during this period. In total 37 people completed the Save a Life training delivered through the CLD Partnership over this period. In addition, NHS Orkney also now deliver Mentally Healthy Workplace training in the community.

For the Skilled level – UHI Orkney are now delivering ASSIST training locally.

For the enhanced level, the CLD Partnership paid for a deliverer to come up to Orkney to deliver the 2-day Scottish Mental Health Trainer for 14 people. UHI Orkney now deliver this training locally.

In total the CLD Partnership specifically arranged 9 training sessions in relation to mental health awareness to 76 people. 17 people that signed up for the training failed to attend.

IMAGE: Two photographs showing mental health training activity: participants working together around a table and a group attending a session in a meeting room.

Other training delivered

In total, 13 training courses were delivered between September 2023 and March 2026.

Training was delivered to 158 people.

18 qualifications were completed in Elementary Food Hygiene and Elementary Food and Health.

In total, 3 planned sessions had to be cancelled. Due to strategic changes, Education Scotland were unable to deliver the full SECI training so agreed to deliver one session on understanding change. 2 training sessions on Health Issues in the Community, from Rousay, Egilsay & Wyre Development Trust were also unable to be delivered.

Overall, in the period from September 2023 to March 2026 the CLD Partnership Training Subgroup organised 22 training sessions to 234 people, helping to meet local demand for training and development across the CLD Sector in Orkney.