Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

"Bluntly - I'm angry" Holyrood hears sector fury over funding

NEWS 18 April 2024 by Graham Martin

Management

Funding & Finance

#RunningCostsCrisis

#EssentialSector

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Calls made for the relationship between voluntary groups and the Scottish Government to be reset

https://tfn.scot/news/bluntly-im-angry-holyrood-hears-sector-fury-over-funding

Fear and loathing: Scotland's most vulnerable hit worst by UK welfare reforms

NEWS 18 March 2025 by Rab Armour

Families & Young People

Management

Social Justice & Poverty

Health & Social Care

Funding & Finance

Regeneration & Housing

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Scots will find it harder financially to live with a disability

https://tfn.scot/news/fear-and-loathing-scotlands-most-vulnerable-hit-worst-by-uk-welfare-reforms

Scottish Budget 2023/24: We’ve heard things like this before

Kirsten Hogg

19 December 2022

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SCVO news
Policy

The budget does give a good sense of the Scottish Government’s priorities, and when we heard in advance,Behind or the prevention of drugs deaths will flow through or into the sector, but as the Scottish Government,As we laid out in our briefing on the budget, greater transparency about the Scottish Government’s funding,The clearest proxy we have to measure government support for the sector within the budget is the Third,to bring about the changes the sector so desperately needs across all government departments and areas

https://scvo.scot/p/56418/2022/12/19/scottish-budget-2023-24-weve-heard-things-like-this-before

Coronavirus sick pay not enough, says charity

NEWS 4 March 2020 by Gavin Stuart

Health & Social Care

UK Government announcement on sick pay leaves poorest workers unprotected.

https://tfn.scot/news/coronavirus-sick-pay-not-enough-says-charity

New housing strategy can rebuild Scots economy

NEWS 9 June 2020 by Robert Armour

Regeneration & Housing

Report calls for £3.4bn investment in housing

https://tfn.scot/news/new-housing-strategy-can-rebuild-scots-economy

OSCR concludes inquiry into shadowy Scots charity

NEWS 4 November 2019 by Robert Armour

Management

Regulator won't take formal action

https://tfn.scot/news/oscr-drops-inquiry-into-shadowy-scots-charity

£30 million to meet rising demand for children’s hospices

NEWS 18 October 2016 by Paul Cardwell

Health & Social Care

The Children’s Hospice Association Scotland has been awarded the Scottish Government cash after a rise in the number of children with life-shortening conditions

https://tfn.scot/news/childrens-hospice-charity-given-30-million-to-meet-demand-for-end-of-life-c