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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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Make fuel poverty history

OPINION 20 September 2019 Guest post
Environment & International
Helen Melone explains the key points of Scotland's draft fuel poverty bill

https://tfn.scot/opinion/make-fuel-poverty-history

Housing bill threatens tenants’ rights

NEWS 5 March 2014 by Robert Armour
Regeneration & Housing
Housing body calls for amendments to housing bill.

https://tfn.scot/news/housing-bill-threatens-tenants-rights

Win for charities on lobbying law

NEWS 5 February 2016 by Graham Martin
Management
Scottish charities have secured a significant victory in the fight to curb the worst excesses of legislation aimed at reigning in lobbying

https://tfn.scot/news/win-for-charities-on-lobbying-law

How technology helped MND sufferer find her voice

NEWS 28 January 2016 by Graham Martin
Health & Social Care
1 comment
after she was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has described the lifeline given to her by new

https://tfn.scot/news/how-technology-helped-mnd-sufferer-find-her-voice

Will Scotland’s social security system be as fair as it can be?

OPINION 23 May 2018 Guest post
Health & Social Care
Lucy Mulvagh on the importance of advocacy in Scotland's new social security system

https://tfn.scot/opinion/putting-human-rights-at-the-heart-of-scottish-social-security

SCVO Briefing - Welfare Reform and Work Bill

Lynn Williams
15 July 2015
Posted in
Not all provisions in the Bill will affect Scotland directly but we comment on them because they reinforce,Shelter Scotland highlighted “shameful” cuts to Housing Benefit for young people.,Amending the Child Poverty Act (Clause 4 – A1A and Clause 6) A secure income is vital in helping children,Impact on Scotland Bill As benefits to be devolved are included in the Welfare and Work Bill – e.g.,to consider the effect on the Smith Commission proposals and the Scotland Bill, and the budgets likely

https://scvo.scot/p/9634/2015/07/15/scvo-briefing-welfare-reform-and-work-bill

New Scotland Bill Amendments

Kate Wane
3 November 2015
Posted in
Kate takes a look at the UK government's amendments to the Scotland Bill 2015-16 and asks if they deliver

https://scvo.scot/p/10537/2015/11/03/new-scotland-bill-amendments

Shaping the Scotland Bill

Kate Wane
24 August 2015
Posted in
Well, we have a Bill. The Scotland Bill 2015-16 in fact.,Overall, our response said nothing new.,clauses, our briefings to MPs ahead of the Committee stages or indeed in Link to Kate Wane's previous blogs,However, we believe that amendments to the clauses relating to welfare, employability and equalities,’s another chances for amendments to be made – coming in the autumn.

https://scvo.scot/p/9951/2015/08/24/9951

SCVO Response - European and External Relations Committee's Human Rights Inquiry

Ruchir Shah
12 November 2015
Posted in
Moreover, as Aiden Collins from HIV Scotland wrote in a blog for SCVO earlier this year: ‘Human rights,a British Bill of Rights.,SCVO holds that any new legislation on rights must maintain the UK’s commitment to the European Convention,This means that any new legislation on human rights must build on the HRA and not seek to replace it,,Any bills which seek to amend or enhance Human Rights legislation are of such importance that they must

https://scvo.scot/p/10617/2015/11/12/scvo-response-european-and-external-relations-committees-human-rights-inquiry

Bills and Amendments: what, why and how

Sheghley Ogilvie
17 December 2018
Posted in
This stage is not a time to raise new issues for the first time.,the Lord Advocate, the Attorney General, or by the Secretary of State for Scotland.,An amendment is a proposal to change the wording of the text of the Bill.,Amendments must be within the scope of the Bill and be relevant to what the Bill sets out to do.,Gaining cross party support of an amendment is a blog for another day, but as this is central to having

https://scvo.scot/p/28190/2018/12/17/bills-and-amendments-what-why-and-how