About our response SCVO welcomes the opportunity to provide written evidence in advance of the oral evidence,Our submission draws on evidence from: SCVO support services (funding, digital, membership support, and,, and research with the sector throughout 21-22,including, ‘Scottish Government funding of voluntary,organisations: A case study ofvoluntary sector intermediaries.’The Scottish Third Sector Tracker.SCVO,service reform and investing in the third sector to support best practice.

(sometimes referred to as the third sector).,Our submission draws on evidence from: SCVO support services (funding, digital, membership support, and,SCVO policy submissions, engagement, and research with the sector throughout 21-22. ,inquiry into the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.,The Social Renewal Advisory Board’s Third Sector Circle recommendation that Scottish Government funding

, digital, membership support, and information).SCVO policy submissions, engagement, and research with,The Scottish Third Sector TrackerSCVO’s State of the Sector statistics 2022.,The Social Renewal Advisory Board’s Third Sector Circle recommendation that Scottish Government funding,Ensure that policies, action and spend necessary to mitigate and adapt to the global impacts of climate,inquiry into the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

Despite spending billions of pounds of public money, there is very little oversight of their spending,to third sector providers.,View the latest sector stats SCVO’s policy works to ensure that the needs and concerns of the third sector,By acting as an authoritative and trusted voice for the sector, SCVO’s policy and research output is,Further details about SCVO’s policy and research can be found at https://scvo.scot/policy-research Contact

European Structural Funds are an important long-term source of funding for third sector activity in Scotland,For instance, an estimated £54m of European funding came to the Scottish third sector in 2014.,While EU funding makes up only a small percentage of the third sector’s overall funding, for those organisations,Structural Funds are an important long-term source of funding for third sector activity in Scotland.,Further details about SCVO’s policy and research can be found at https://scvo.scot/policy-research Contact

sector on employability and contribution Third sector ideas and themes - the issues/questions and ideas,On the other hand, third sector organisations have been vocal about some of the challenges: A current,Third sector propositions As Scotland prepares for the transfer of new powers, the sector has already,2014 – 2020 can contribute to employability support in Scotland.,The Scottish Government needs to get better at accepting spend in specific policy areas such as employability

Research from a range of third sector organisations highlights that carers do not get anywhere near enough,SCVO’s own research shows that third sector funding from the public sector is down, and third sector,/policy-library/state-of-caring-2014 [vi] http://www.carers.org/news/wake-call-nation-over-reality-family-caring,[vii] http://www.carersuk.org/for-professionals/policy/policy-library/state-of-caring-2014 [viii]http,/research/third-sector-funding-and-spending-in-2013/ [xvii] http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2014/06/

Scottish Referendum, amplifying the voice and ideas of the third sector and the people it supports.,It is not unusual for people to ask why we are looking at the economy, after all the third sector is,Shouldn’t we be focussing on charity tax, third sector procurement and water rates?,The third sector has grown as a result but should we be happy with this?,[iv] Zero-hours contracts, Standard Note: SN/BT/6553, House of Commons Library (2014), p4.

Across the third sector in Scotland, evidence of the devastation caused by sanctions, in many cases applied,into the impact of welfare reform on Scotland’s third sector.,people with little or no income which they are more likely to spend in their local area.,It also helps to strengthen and develop third sector organisations taking part.,Across the lifetime of the scheme, and previously with the Future Jobs Fund, the third sector has created