Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Right to Roam

All subsequent efforts failed as successive governments avoided trying to get legislation through the,In 1994 a report from the government’s advisers on the countryside, Scottish Natural Heritage, called,Scotland’s excellent access rights – together with the Scottish Government’s National Walking Strategy

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/right-to-roam

Repealing Ban on Discussing Homosexuality in Schools

series of homophobic attacks on LGBT equality and pro-LGBT Labour councils by Margaret Thatcher’s government,Section 28 (s28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was a controversial GB-wide amendment to local government,It was eventually repealed in the rest of Britain by the Local Government Act in November 2003.

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/repealing-ban-on-discussing-homosexuality-in-schools

Community Right to Buy

The Scottish Government was committed to simplifying it but not at that stage to extending it.,“The Community Empowerment Bill gave us an opportunity to change this as government officials effectively,We employed a former government solicitor and a legislation drafting expert to help us draft a targeted,After a lot of lobbying we got the Scottish Government to allow communities to buy land if it was abandoned

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/community-right-to-buy

Abolition of Tuition Fees

In 1998, university fees were reintroduced by the Labour government at a cost of £1,000 per year.,The GE was scrapped by the SNP government in 2008, following a campaign by NUS Scotland, who are committed,While we lost the tuition fee argument with the Westminster Government, it was instrumental in getting,First Minister Alex Salmond said that “rocks would melt under the sun” before an SNP government introduced

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/abolition-of-tuition-fees

Climate Change

SCSS secured a government commitment to a 42 per cent reduction target by 2020, by initiating a media,coalitions have since approached SCCS for advice following its success in persuading the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/climate-change

Minimum Alcohol Pricing

increasing price but this option was not available to Scotland as taxation was reserved to the UK Government,The Scottish Government had been trying to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol since 2009.

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/minimum-alcohol-pricing

Justice for Victims of Asbestos Related Diseases

CAA, through its campaigning activities, convinced the then Scottish Government to address the invidious,worked with colleagues in the Trade Union movement and wider civic society to convince the Scottish Government,“We thought that was morally wrong, we fought against that and the Scottish Government supported it.

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/justice-for-victims-of-asbestos-related-diseases

Organ Donation Opt Out

The Organ Donation Opt Out was introduced by the Scottish Government in 2017, allowing organs to be used,Initial meetings with government officials and ministers met with strong opposition.,A turning point came with the 2016 election, which saw the SNP majority government become a minority,However just four weeks after the election, McColgan received a phone call to say the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/organ-donation-opt-out

Make Renting Right

The Scottish Government had carried out its own review of private renting in 2008 and 2009 and was receptive

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/making-renting-right

Affordable Homes

The Scottish Government formed a group to review subsidy levels – which the SFHA was part of – and the,In 2016, the SNP was elected again to government and subsequently announced a target of 50,000 affordable,Although less than the 60,000 affordable homes our research called for, we welcomed the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/about/work/campaigns/archive/20-years-delivering-change/affordable-homes

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