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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 Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.

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Technology – are charities above the law?

OPINION 26 August 2015 Guest post
Management
Val Surgenor, partner at MacRoberts LLP, discusses some of the golden rules charities should follow to stay on the right side of the law

https://tfn.scot/opinion/technology-are-charities-above-the-law

Global dementia conference explores the possibility of cure

NEWS 8 June 2016 by Paul Cardwell
Health & Social Care
Speakers from all over the world debated the latest dementia advances and findings at Alzheimer Scotland's flagship event

https://tfn.scot/news/global-dementia-conference-explores-possibility-of-cures-and-better-approac

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

Rachel Le Noan
16 February 2023
Posted in
and skills of civil servants, data indicate that good relationships rely on individuals remaining in post,On many occasions, it is unclear whether a contribution to policy development in the form of a policy,As Sheghley Ogilvie from SCVO explained in a blog post last year: ‘I’ve often heard the Programme for,development around a particular policy area.,policy teams.

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

Urgent change needed to create safer roads for everyone

OPINION 2 April 2024 by Denise Hamilton
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Culture & Leisure
Serious injuries and deaths on our roads are unacceptable and preventable says Cycling Scotland’s Denise Hamilton

https://tfn.scot/opinion/urgent-change-needed-to-create-safer-roads-for-everyone

Black History Month and beyond

FEATURE 11 November 2020 Guest post
Social Justice & Poverty
Culture & Leisure
The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER’s) Kirsty McNeill looks back at the events of BHM2020

https://tfn.scot/features/black-history-month-and-beyond

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

Paul Bradley
14 April 2022
Posted in
Those strands include the need for visible policy coherence, effective accountability mechanisms, and,the Scottish Government and other public bodies that delivers policy coherence across strategies, plans,We expect to see a more profound analysis of how policies and activities in economic and other strategies,Policy coherence is about joined-up thinking, but we are not seeing consistent links between strategy,In announcing the inquiry to the Scottish Parliament on 1 March, the Convenor mentioned that in his blog

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

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

A focus on human rights 

Kirsten Hogg
14 October 2021
Posted in
my desk last week was the news from my web colleagues that Google’s algorithms have marked a 2016 blog,As I highlighted in a previous blog post, as we have moved our policy focus to issues impacting on the,I started drafting this blog conscious that anyone coming to SCVO’s website through the Google algorithm,wouldn’t find a ‘human rights’ heading under our policy work.

https://scvo.scot/p/45533/2021/10/14/a-focus-on-human-rights

Let’s Talk Pensions

FEATURE 28 April 2017 by Alex Turnbull
Management
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TFN takes a look at the state of pension deficits in the third sector by asking three experts to answer some basic questions.

https://tfn.scot/features/lets-talk-pensions

Economic disruption is essential for social change

Professor Iain Black
28 March 2022
Posted in
In this guest blog, I have been asked to set out some answers to how we can contribute to changing the,Our role can be internal such as changing organisational purchasing or travel policy.

https://scvo.scot/p/49645/2022/03/28/economic-disruption-is-essential-for-social-disruption

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Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.