At a MEETING of the - Dundee City Council

At a MEETING of the COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 18th April 2005.
Present:-
Lord Provost John R LETFORD
BAILIES
C D P FARQUHAR John CORRIGAN Bruce D MACKIE
Helen WRIGHT Neil I C POWRIE Ian BORTHWICK
COUNCILLORS
Jill SHIMI Joe MORROW Jim BARRIE
Kevin KEENAN Helen DICK Will DAWSON
George REGAN Nigel DON Elizabeth F FORDYCE
Julia M STURROCK Bob DUNCAN Roderick A J WALLACE
Fiona M GRANT Richard BEATTIE Charles A WEBSTER
Christopher HIND Andrew DAWSON Derek J SCOTT
Christina ROBERTS
Councillor HIND, Convener, in the Chair.
The minute of meeting of this Committee of 14th March 2005 was held as read.
Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.
I HMIe INSPECTION OF KIRKTON AND DUNDEE CENTRAL
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There was submitted Report No 215-2005 by the Head of Communities providing a summary of the
findings of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education who had inspected Communities Department
management systems and delivery of community learning and development (CLD) in Dundee Central
and Kirkton areas over the first two weeks in December 2004.
Community learning and development was targeted at those individuals and groups in society who
were more likely to experience disadvantage. As part of the inspection, HMIe looked specifically at
the Department's delivery in respect of equality and diversity and had made favourable comment on
this.
The Committee approved the following recommendations:-
(a) to note the positive feedback from HMIe on the delivery of community learning and
development by the City Council's Communities Department. Since the introduction of
the current inspection framework for community learning and development work in
Scotland, no other authority had had a report with all indicators scoring either good or
very good (see Appendix 1 of the Report);
(b) to note that HMIe had identified a number of areas for continuous improvement - the
most significant relating to community provision in the Hilltown; and
(c) to note that there were no formal requirements which would be the subject of a follow
up inspection.