This guide has been prepared by HM Inspectorate of Education to help colleges evaluate how inclusive they are, with a view to enabling the widest possible range of potential learners to benefit from education and training and to become effective lifelong learners. The guide recognises the extensive contribution that colleges make to the development of young people and adults as lifelong learners. Successive national policies, legislation and guidance have driven and reinforced colleges' aims to promote access and participation in education and training, and to facilitate economic and social participation. Colleges know that a substantial proportion of potential learners do not find it easy to participate and that this requires them to take action to provide appropriate learning experiences for a diverse range of people. Colleges play a substantial role in workforce development, whether for those preparing for employment or for those already in work and needing to develop new skills and knowledge. Colleges also make a major contribution to language and literacy development, both for learners with poor literacy skills and for those for whom English is not the first language. The widening client base in recent years has demanded that colleges adopt increasingly inclusive and learner-centred practices. Appended are: (1) Legislation; and (2) Resources Available from the Scottish Further Education Unit. (Contains 1 footnote.) [This report was published in association with the Scottish Funding Council.]