Posts tagged Welfare Reform

Dunfermline Advocacy Development Worker, Ewan Masson, reflects on national conversation to create a 'Fairer Scotland' Read more

It's time for those most affected by benefit reforms and austerity measures to have their say Read more

Yet ideologically driven policy and blaming the poor are the marks of the first Queen’s Speech from this majority Conservative Government. Read more

Welfare SCVO and the wider third sector will welcome the fact that the Committee has raised concerns about the welfare powers promised as a result of the Smith Commission. It is not secret that many within the sector wanted to see more welfare powers being devolved to Scotland... Read more

Ruchir discusses the need to change our approach to welfare reform mitigation in the face of increasingly negative mainstream party lines. Read more

SCVO welcomes the Department of Work and Pension’s (DWP) consultation on Universal Credit data sharing. This is an important issue for Scotland's charities and voluntary organisations, many of whom support some of Scotland's most vulnerable claimants. Please note that with the... Read more

A new report from SCVO highlights the human cost of welfare reform - and it is a price too high to pay. Read more

Report summary In this report SCVO presents third sector perspectives on the impact of welfare reform on the people and communities it supports in Scotland. It is based on research carried out by SCVO during summer 2014. It builds on an earlier SCVO mapping study which reported... Read more

The human costs of welfare reform The sector has been at the forefront of dealing with the fall out of a range of cuts and changes to benefits and tax credits.[i] Working with our members and partners and a whole range of voluntary organisations, the picture we are building is... Read more

This week the first UK Treasury transparency letters to taxpayers detailing how taxes are spent land on doorsteps. Is this a case of more information or a blatant attempt to gain votes? Read more