Consultation responses

SCVO response: Scottish Parliament Health & Sport Committee 13 August 2018 Download a PDF version of this response Our position SCVO regards the Bill’s provisions around social care services as unnecessary. Any future legislative proposals in this area that affect the third... Read more

Loneliness and Isolation Strategy - SCVO response to Scottish Government Download the PDF version of this document 02 May 2018 Our position SCVO welcomes this world-leading national strategy for tackling loneliness. Human rights and gender based approaches should frame this work... Read more

SCVO response to Scottish Parliament Finance Committee Download the PDF version of this response 13 April 2018 Our position SCVO is a named stakeholder in the current European Structural and Investment Funds, and also a member of a UK-wide group exploring successor arrangements... Read more

SCVO response to Scottish Parliament Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee Download the PDF version of this response 13 April 2018 Our position SCVO is a named stakeholder in the ESIF Operational Programmes. Based on this experience: We note a lack of transparency in the approval... Read more

SCVO response to Scottish Parliament Local Government and Communities Committee Download the PDF version of this response 13 April 2018 Our position We strongly welcome all the revised National Outcomes. And the Sustainable Development Goals being used to frame them. On the other... Read more

Summary The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) are requesting that Scottish and Welsh MP give their backing to the cross-party tabling of amendments from the Scottish and Welsh Governments’. SCVO and WCVA have... Read more

Social Security (Scotland) Bill SCVO response to Social Security Committee 29 August 2017 Our position The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) welcome the opportunity to respond to the Social Security Committee’s call for evidence. The Scottish Government’s... Read more

Direction of travel In July 2015 SCVO held a Fairer Scotland event, attended by many of our members and officials from Scottish Government. The key principles outlined at that event formed the backbone of the Fairer Scotland strategy and it is heartening to see the Scottish... Read more

Our response SCVO welcomes this inquiry and would like to contribute the following: Introduction To begin, it is important to note that if we here in Scotland eventually move towards fully empowered communities (where real decision-making power – rather than just a range of... Read more

Introduction SCVO has been keen to support an open conversation about tax, including the purpose, design, and language used to talk about tax. We therefore welcome the opportunity to respond to this review of business rates in Scotland. Within our response, business rates are... Read more