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Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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The largest poverty indicator that nobody's talking about 

OPINION 11 October 2023 by Jade Stein
Social Justice & Poverty
explores the need to make visible how poverty and economic inequality are experienced at higher rates by women

https://tfn.scot/opinion/the-largest-poverty-indicator-that-no-ones-talking-about

Radical change is needed to limit global warming

OPINION 12 October 2018 Guest post
Environment & International
Rosie Watson warns that immediate, drastic action is required to successfully limit warming to 1.5 degrees

https://tfn.scot/opinion/radical-change-is-needed-to-limit-global-warming

Scrap the benefit cap, UK Government told by campaigners

NEWS 1 February 2022 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Regeneration & Housing
1 comment
Poverty Alliance, Scotland’s anti-poverty network, has now made fresh calls for the cap to go. 

https://tfn.scot/news/scrap-the-benefit-cap-uk-government-told-by-campaigners

SCVO response to the Finance & Public Administration Committee: Scotland's public finances in 2023-24

Sheghley Ogilvie
19 August 2022
Posted in
This will support the voluntary sector workforce, 135,000 people, which includes more women (64.5%),,more part-time workers (37%), and more people with a disability (23%) than the public and private sectors,Women and people with a disability are at greater risk of living in poverty, an inequality the Poverty,SCVO’s thought-leadership blog series highlights the economic return on investment generated from public,Enhancing the accessibility of information relating to the Scottish Government’s voluntary sector funding fits

https://scvo.scot/p/52616/2022/08/19/scvo-response-to-the-finance-public-administration-committee-scotlands-public-finances-in-2023-24-the-impact-of-the-cost-of-living-and-public-service-reform

What are the Scottish Government and Parliament’s Tax and Spending Options?

Jenny Bloomfield
13 December 2017
Posted in
important in the context of demographic change and increased automation – how do we make our economy fit,socially just Scotland, members felt that much more can be done to link that vision to tax and spend,We need to use this opportunity for a more rational, less politicised (we can but hope) debate on the,(a) How can we encourage the Scottish Government to use the tax powers they have more effectively, in,currently being ‘put to hold’ due to Brexit, but as an interim the UK Government provides funds to women

https://scvo.scot/p/22923/2017/12/13/what-are-the-scottish-government-and-parliaments-tax-and-spending-options