The Living Wage has been a big issue for the sector for the last decade and things appear to be moving,Wage, and by 2022 that figure has dropped to just 6%.,Work Nation funding still does not always cover Living Wage rates.,Let’s hope we’re not still talking about below Living Wage pay, unequal treatment of workers, and high,practices in the third sector, it is worth re-iterating that there is strong evidence of good practice

of SCVO engagement and research activities into Fair Funding (2022) SCVO's response to the Scottish,It is unclear how the Scottish Government will support the sector to pay the real Living Wage to all,The Living Wage Foundation’s report, All Work and Low Pay, confirms that voluntary organisations want,to pay their staff at least the real Living Wage and to be good employers, but the system we work in,It is unclear how the Scottish Government will support the sector to pay the real Living Wage to all

Based on a range of evidence, including Volunteer Scotland’s recent research report, ‘Testing our Resilience,Our latest research shows two thirds of organisations have seen demand for their support increase over,The findings from the latest wave of the Scottish Third Sector Tracker from summer 2022 show the impact,In the Scottish Third Sector Tracker’s Third Wave, published in Spring 2022, 62% of organisations said,Taking all this evidence into consideration, it is clear that volunteering is under considerable threat

The Scottish Third Sector TrackerSCVO’s State of the Sector statistics 2022.,For example, the 2022/2023 Scottish Budget reduced the Third Sector Budget Line by £800,000, to £25.8,Fair Work First criteria to include the Living Wage.,pay the Living Wage.,limited to being unable to pay the Living Wage on secured contracts.