Who are we?

In direct support of the Scottish Government's - Skills for Scotland Strategy, the mission of learndirect scotland is to help individuals and small businesses across Scotland to realise their potential through learning, at a time, place, pace and style that suits their needs.

Working closely with key partners, we seek to enhance the skills and employability of individuals and the competitiveness of companies, by encouraging disadvantaged and disaffected people back into learning to improve their personal and work-related skills and by helping small businesses to access training and development opportunities for their staff.

To support these aspirations, we have established:

• a sophisticated, technology-enabled, national infrastructure, including:
  • a network of 500 quality-assured, client-focused learning centres
  • a national database of over 100,000 quality-assured learning opportunities
  • a range of national information and advice helplines
  • a team of field-based support staff
  • who assist learning centres and small businesses to engage
  • more effectively and efficiently with their clients