About our response SCVO welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments,In order for those who participate in the work of committees - be it responding to consultations, giving,And committee pre-budget scrutiny consultations often open and close at very similar times, resulting,opportunities for engagement that are made available, are not conducive to eliciting the highest quality responses,worthwhile, and to ensure that participants who provide their expertise and experiences through consultations

About our response SCVO welcomes the opportunity to the call for views on the UK government's Civil Society,that, where engagement is poor, it is driven by a range of barriers, which are outlined in this consultation,response.,Organisational profiles: funding and public sector relationships: in 2021 SCVO commissioned an independent consultant,, Arrivo Consulting, to conduct depth interviews with several of our members.

Below is SCVO’s response to the questions you directed to us, providing our views on the level of cyber,organisations in Scotland see cyber security as a business priority however very few have a cyber incident response,Through the CyberScotland Partnership there is a free Cyber Incident Response and Recovery Helpline that,organisations can contact for support during an incident, which is referenced in SCVO’s easy-to-use incident response,The human cost of a cyber-attack can be significant to both staff and volunteers involved in the response

About our response SCVO welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Scottish Government consultation on,Our response is informed both by the conclusions reached by the SCIO Dissolution Working Group 2019 and,Our response Q 1 Do you agree or disagree that a SCIO should be ‘inactive’ once it submits an application,dissolution of insolvent SCIOs with debts of less than £1,500, which has not been taken forward in this consultation,o Less than 6 yearso 6 yearso More than 6 yearso No time limitSee our response to question 17.

Between March and June 2025, the SORP-making body consulted on the Exposure Draft SORP.,Responses were collected using an online form, on which SCVO submitted the following responses, based,Due to the length of the consultation, and the complexity of some of the issues, we worked with our pro,We therefore did not gather information to respond to all of the questions in the consultation.,Yes By and large charities who attended our consultation event felt that reporting requirements were

SCVO's response, on behalf of the voluntary sector, is below.,Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) welcomes the opportunity to engage with the Scottish Government’s consultation,We are providing a short response to this consultation.,Rather than responding to each consultation question individually, we will seek to provide a brief overview,Learnings from this roundtable have also informed this response.

In this response, we draw on evidence from: The legislative process that resulted in the Charities (Regulation,Summary of our response The Scottish voluntary sector is an employer, a partner, and a vital social and,We, therefore, wish to use our response to highlight just a fraction of the suggestions that have been,Our response Should there be a review of charity regulation? Yes.,As outlined in our response to the Social Justice and Social Security Committee’s consultation at Stage

About our response SCVO welcomes the opportunity to respond to questions 2, 3, 9 and 10 of the Finance,In our response to this question, we will focus on objective 2, improved transparency and increased public,The Third Sector Unit should also be consulted on wider transparency initiatives.,Committee Pre-Budget Scrutiny consultations often open and close at very similar times, as a result voluntary

engagement with voluntary organisations to inform our position on proposals included within this consultation,Summary of response SCVO supports any moves to ensure that volunteering is accessible and inclusive and,Our response Do you agree with the proposal to move to a fee discount for volunteers in Qualifying Voluntary,As set out in Volunteer Scotland’s response to this consultation, there are a number of voluntary organisations,As detailed previously in this response, the funding challenges facing the voluntary sector in Scotland