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Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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Drugs forum would back illegal drug injecting rooms

NEWS 3 March 2020 by Gareth Jones
Health & Social Care
Experts in Scotland must work together to tackle the drugs crisis, however an illegal drugs consumption facility should not be closed by police

https://tfn.scot/news/drugs-forum-would-back-illegal-consumption-facility

Housing body wants eviction period changed

NEWS 20 August 2020 by Robert Armour
Regeneration & Housing
Landlords and tenants are losing out

https://tfn.scot/news/housing-body-wants-eviction-period-changed

Plans to burn extra 1m tonnes of waste slammed

NEWS 28 September 2020 by Robert Armour
Environment & International
More incineration planned

https://tfn.scot/news/plans-to-burn-extra-1m-tonnes-of-waste-slammed

Review launched into fundraising in Scotland

NEWS 13 July 2015 by Susan Smith
Management
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The Scottish Government has asked the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations with investigating how to tackle bad fundraising practice

https://tfn.scot/news/review-launched-into-fundraising-in-scotland

Charity to go on anti-sectarian football tour

NEWS 28 January 2016 by Paul Cardwell
Culture & Leisure
Nil by Mouth will visit 10 Scottish towns in a bid to rid the country of bigotry.

https://tfn.scot/news/charity-to-go-on-anti-sectarian-football-tour

A sad day for dog welfare as Scottish Government brings back tail docking

NEWS 5 October 2016 by Molly Millar
Culture & Leisure
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The government's failure to ban highly controversial shock collars and its plans to reintroduce tail docking have come under fire from animal welfare charities

https://tfn.scot/news/charities-attack-government-for-disregard-for-dog-welfare

Health visitor shortage spells doom for Named Person

NEWS 5 July 2016 by Susan Smith
Health & Social Care
The Scottish Conservatives say a serious shortage of health visitors will make the Scottish Government's new named person scheme unworkable

https://tfn.scot/news/health-visitor-shortage-spells-doom-for-named-person

Together we can achieve so much more

OPINION 11 September 2017 by Gareth Jones
Environment & International
Stewart Kirkpatrick, head of 38 Degrees Scotland, looks at what has been achieved since the Scottish wing of the group started

https://tfn.scot/opinion/together-we-can-achieve-so-much-more

Catalogue of failings show housing association misled tenants

NEWS 22 June 2017 by Robert Armour
Regeneration & Housing
Report shows association was so badly governed regulator had to take over control to protect tenants

https://tfn.scot/news/catalogue-of-failings-show-housing-association-misled-tenants

Housing bodies condemn Universal Credit rent arrears chaos

NEWS 10 July 2018 by Robert Armour
Regeneration & Housing
Social housing tenants that have been moved onto the new Universal Credit benefits system are twice as likely to build up rent arrears

https://tfn.scot/news/all-uk-housing-groups-condemn-flawed-universal-credit

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2025. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.