Introduction As my colleague Sheghley posted at the end of June, SCVO wanted to learn more about the,This blog and accompanying research report have been produced to share the information that we were able

and protectedyour goal is to not have to call in the emergency services Do you have a fire safety policy,Do you have a cyber security policy? What about a cyber security strategy?

for content across all our other websites, and for Goodmoves to show our training courses, TFN news posts,, and posts by organisations, as well as many other use cases.,for a new job in the third sector setting up email alerts to match their search preferences, and policy,This blog post was also published as a guest blog with Elastic.

Our next blog will analyse how Stage One of the Bill process is progressing – the deadline for Stage

of austerity Britain, the Special Rapporteur condemned the UK Government for adopting a range of policies,said, was not an economic necessity but a frame used to justify ideologically driven poverty-related policy,highlights, automation and artificial intelligence themselves need not undermine rights, Governments make policy,been callous, the digital welfare state is here to stay and there is a need to look beyond austerity policy,Policy and process are two sides of the same coin.

how can the sector effectively engage with the Scottish Parliament’s Bill process to progress their policy,Last month SCVO’s Policy Officers Network met with the Scottish Parliament Legislation Team to find out,Develop a policy aim and ensure the MSP understands it.The Legislation Team turn MSPs ideas into amendments,Again the legislation team can help MSPs draft an amendment to achieve this.If you wish to see post-legislative,Gaining cross party support of an amendment is a blog for another day, but as this is central to having

UK exits the European Union and amidst the uncertainties of what a UK economy will look like in a post-Brexit,Read Craig Wilson’s blog for more analysis.,our governance and membership structures are democratic and accountable – with an elected board and policy,Contact Paul Bradley Policy and Campaigns Officer Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Mansfield

This was the key message from our most recent Meet the Researchers event at which SCVO’s Policy Officers,The seven strong research team, led by Head of Policy, Michael Sharpe, highlighted that during periods,As policy colleagues across the third sector know, achieving change is often a numbers game.,While Scottish Labour have an internal policy forum structured around the party’s links with trade unions,For more information on Scottish Labour’s policy positions and development visit their new website or

are undoubtedly important announcements contained within it, it perhaps lacks the headline grabbing policy,Regardless of whether you think they were good policies, you can’t deny that scrapping tuition fees and,freezing the council tax (for example) were impressive flagship policies.,Shelter Scotland clearly feel more can be done in terms of looking at housing as a cross-cutting policy

I’ve enjoyed managing a project touching on so many of the things I love – policy, public affairs, campaigns