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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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Charities: Programme for Government a “missed opportunity”

NEWS 4 September 2018 by Graham Martin
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The Scottish Government has missed an opportunity to tackle food poverty and its attendant problems, say charities

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-programme-for-government-a-missed-opportunity

SCVO's policy and influencing progress in 2023

Paul Bradley
7 July 2023
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SCVO's policy and public affairs team braced ourselves for a busy start to the year – you may recall my blog,Many organisations felt disappointed with the narrow changes proposed in 2019.

https://scvo.scot/p/60640/2023/07/07/scvos-policy-and-influencing-progress-in-2023

SCVO response to the inquiry into Public Administration – Effective Scottish Government decision-making (Finance & Public Administration Committee)

Rachel Le Noan
16 February 2023
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also be clear about the scope for influence that voluntary organisations have on a process – and must seek,We are hopeful that we can secure a breadth of third sector representation across the NSET workstreams,As Sheghley Ogilvie from SCVO explained in a blog post last year: ‘I’ve often heard the Programme for,Disappointment often follows publication paired with frustration among voluntary sector colleagues that,While we would like to hope that such appraisals are adopted by civil servants before taking decisions

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

Government to favour bidders who pay the Living Wage

Jenny Bloomfield
6 October 2015
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This is hardly the revelation that we’d been hoping for back when we first started work on what became,SCVO and others in the sector were pretty disappointed to see that the Living Wage wasn’t put into the,SCVO and others in the sector were pretty disappointed to see that the Living Wage wasn’t put into the,employee practices and your decent pay packets – it might just secure you that public contract you’re seeking

https://scvo.scot/p/10299/2015/10/06/government-to-favour-bidders-who-pay-the-living-wage

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

Jenny Bloomfield
13 December 2017
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We need to use this opportunity for a more rational, less politicised (we can but hope) debate on the,behind any taxation system – which we have often repeated (see, for example, here: http://www.scvo.scot/blog,like a good place for third sector campaigners to keep pushing, and for the Scottish Government to seek,charities-across-the-uk-benefit-from-tampon-tax-fund. [8] The Government’s stance on APD is particularly disappointing,Scottish Government’s own climate change targets. [9] Northern Ireland’s ‘Bending the spend’ work – which seeks

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