CeVe

Community Education Validation and Endorsement (Scotland), known as CeVe, was in existence for twenty years.

In 1988 the then Minister for Education asked the Scottish Community Education Council (SCEC) to establish a national training body for community education. In 1989 CeVe was created and the following year the Minister approved the first guidelines for community education training. Since then, guidelines have been developed – and revised – for training at qualifying, pre-qualifying, part-time and voluntary workers levels, and for staff development policies and recognition of qualifications. 

The work of CeVe was carried out by a core of paid staff based within Learning Connections and its predecessors, with significant support from the sector.  The process of approval of training programmes has remained the same since inception, that the approval/endorsement panel is made up of practitioners at a range of levels with experience relevant to the training programme submitted.

CeVe also had a responsibility:

• To provide initial guidance on routes into a career in community learning and development
• To act as a link between the community learning and development sector, training providers and relevant projects, eg Scottish Qualifications and Credit Framework.

CeVe was a peer-led body, reflecting the wide range of employers and agencies involved in community learning and development. It operated through a committee made up of employer representatives from the voluntary and local authority sectors,  representatives from training providers and from associated professional organisations.

The work of CeVe has now passed over to the Approvals Committee of the CLD Standards Council for Scotland.