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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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What Brexit means for the third sector

FEATURE 30 June 2016 by Susan Smith
Management
A week after the shock EU referendum result, Susan Smith examines how the third sector has responded

https://tfn.scot/features/what-brexit-means-for-the-third-sector

A failure in co-production

OPINION 9 December 2015 Guest post
Health & Social Care
1 comment
After two years of small local groups working together to redesign local services, Edinburgh council

https://tfn.scot/opinion/a-failure-in-co-production

Self-directed support marks a new dawn for social care

FEATURE 28 March 2014 by Susan Smith
Health & Social Care
From 1 April, Scottish people have the legal right to control their own social care budget, a move that impacts on clients and care staff alike

https://tfn.scot/features/a-new-dawn-for-social-care

Is civil society failing refugees?

NEWS 29 February 2016 by Graham Martin
Social Justice & Poverty
Minister claims civil society should do more for refugees - does he have a point?

https://tfn.scot/news/is-civil-society-failing-refugees

Blackbaud ransomware attack – what should charities do next?

OPINION 31 July 2020 Guest post
Health & Social Care
1 comment
Alison Stone gives advice for organisations who may be worried by the recent cyber attack on the major software provider

https://tfn.scot/opinion/blackbaud-ransomware-attack-what-should-charities-do-next

Is digital a human right?

FEATURE 26 August 2015 by Robert Armour
Culture & Leisure
If you’re reading this chances are you’re online. But did you know five billion others aren’t? Robert Armour investigates our right to get online

https://tfn.scot/features/is-digital-a-human-right

Holyrood 2021: what the voluntary sector wants

NEWS 4 May 2021 by Graham Martin
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Culture & Leisure
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#NeverMoreNeeded
1 comment
TFN's guide to charity election manifestos

https://tfn.scot/news/holyrood-2021-what-the-voluntary-sector-wants

SCVO response to the inquiry into Public Administration – Effective Scottish Government decision-making

Rachel Le Noan
16 February 2023
Posted in
Sector, the Equalities and Human Rights Committee highlighted that: ‘Several organisations […] questioned,equalities or human rights policies’.,Decisions made about Scotland’s future must be designed with us and our beneficiaries in local and national,As Sheghley Ogilvie from SCVO explained in a blog post last year: ‘I’ve often heard the Programme for,seek to direct the work of the third sector organisations involved, or to make all the decisions around

https://scvo.scot/p/57213/2023/02/16/scvo-response-to-the-inquiry-into-public-administration-effective-scottish-government-decision-making

SCVO response to the Finance and Public Administration Committee's National Performance Framework inquiry

Paul Bradley
14 April 2022
Posted in
The report, ‘Valuing the Third Sector,’ published by the former Equalities and Human Rights Committee,local delivery.,The former Equalities and Human Rights Committee called on the Scottish Government to outline its “views,in June 2019 on what the national performance framework means for the third sector?,(sometimes referred to as the third sector).

https://scvo.scot/p/49998/2022/04/14/scvo-response-to-the-finance-committee-inquiry-national-performance-framework-ambitions-into-action

The war on the Commonweal: taking a stand in 2014

Natasha Hallett
8 January 2014
Posted in
Many of you in the Third Sector are quite aware of this and have battled against it for years.,It closes the lid on things we have a right to know.,13] who came out onto the streets to protest and occupy squares and buildings in 2011 are organising local,And this brings me to the third significant stream that is running at the moment..,Research Unit London School of Economics and Political Science June 2012 [15] http://www.democracynow.org/blog

https://scvo.scot/p/2963/2014/01/08/the-war-on-the-commonweal-taking-a-stand-in-2014