Standing Consultative Council on Youth and Community Service (Hansard, 10 June 1964)

§ Mr. Noble

The Standing Consultative Council on Youth Service in Scotland has been reconstituted as the Standing Consultative Council on Youth and Community Service. The present membership of the Council is as follows:

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Chairman: The Hon. Lord Kilbrandon

MEMBERS NOMINATED BY STATUTORY AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS INTERESTED IN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Nominating Body	Member
Association of County Councils in Scotland.	W. Duncan, Esq.	Former Chairman, Dumfries Education Committee.
Scottish Counties of Cities Association.	Councillor W. H. Russell, J. P.	Member of Glasgow Education Committee.
District Councils' Association for Scotland.	Rev. Donald Macdonald	Minister of Gairloch Parish Church; President-EIect of District Councils' Association.
Association of Directors of Education.	G. Reith, Esq., M.A., B.Sc, B.Ed, Ph.D.	Director of Education. Edinburgh.
Association of Further Education of Officers in Scotland.	Miss J. T. Hamilton, M.A. Dip Ed.	Further Education and Youth Officer, Angus.
Scottish Council for the Training of Teachers.	W. B. Inglis, Esq., O.B.E., M.A Ed.B., Ph.D., F.E.I.S.	Principal, Moray House College of Education.
Educational Institute of Scotland	G. T. Craig, Esq., M.A., F.E.I.S	Deputy Headmaster, Earnock Secondary School, Hamilton.
Scottish Council of Social Service.	W. Campbell, Esq., C.B.E., M.A. B.L., F.E.I.S.	Member of Executive Committee of S.C.S.S., Chairman, S.C.S.S. Working Party on Community Centres.
Association of Youth Service Workers in Scotland.	N. N. M. Hutchison. Esq.	Chairman Association o. Y.S.W.; Secretary, Edinburgh Union of Boys' Clubs.
Scottish Standing Conference of Voluntary Youth Organisations.	Miss D. Morison Inches	Chairman, S.S.C.V.Y.O.
	The Countess of Mar and Kellie	Chairman Scottish Association of Youth Clubs.
	C. J. Tait, Esq., B Sc	General Secretary, Scottish Association of Boys' Clubs.
	Miss M. L. Peattie	Organising Secretary, the Girls Guildry (Scottish Council).

Members nominated by the Secretary of State

C. S. Oram, Esq	…	Voluntary youth club leader, Hat land's Engineering Company, Alloa; Queen's Scout; holder Duke of Edinburgh's Award of the Gold Award of the rd Scheme.
I. B. Rodger, Esq, M.B.E	…	Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Committee of the Boy Scouts Association.
C. J. Smith, Esq.	…	Former National President of the Young Christian Workers; part-time community development officer in Edinburgh, 1961–1964.
Rev. Dr. W. Steven	…	Minister of Queen's Park West Church, Glasgow; Convenor of the Church of Scotland Youth Committee.
The Council's remit is:
"To promote within the sphere of informal further education further development of the youth and community services, and to foster co-operation among the statutory authorities and voluntary organisations concerned."
Within this broad remit the Council determines its own programme.
Matters to which the Council is at present giving priority are:
training of part-time and full-time youth leaders;
professional structure of the youth and community services;
formation of links between youth service, community service, formal education, and sport.