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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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Care providers should be tougher at bargaining

OPINION 20 April 2017 Guest post
Management
Charities should not jeopardise their own sustainability by accepting service levels or fees that are unfeasible to deliver, says Alastair Keatinge

https://tfn.scot/opinion/care-providers-should-be-tougher-at-bargaining

Inclusivity in the city

OPINION 26 August 2019 Guest post
Health & Social Care
Jan Savage looks at the positive impact of the We Are One Citizen and its potential contribution to inclusivity and equality in Scotland

https://tfn.scot/opinion/inclusivity-in-the-city

General election: Speak out now to beat hatred and division

NEWS 18 April 2017 by Graham Martin
Social Justice & Poverty
Scotland’s third sector must be at the forefront of ensuring progressive ideas win over hatred and division in snap General Election campaign

https://tfn.scot/news/use-election-to-beat-hatred-and-division

Director of RSPB Scotland to step down

NEWS 19 October 2016 by Molly Millar
Environment & International
RSPB ​Director Stuart Housden will retire from the charity next year

https://tfn.scot/news/director-of-rspb-scotland-to-step-down

Scots leaving more donations in their wills

NEWS 5 April 2019 by Gareth Jones
Management
Scottish charities have saw the amount they bring in from legacy giving grow by a quarter, higher than the UK average

https://tfn.scot/news/scots-leaving-more-donations-in-their-wills

Report shows human rights ignored in delivery of public services during Covid-19

NEWS 25 May 2021 by Gareth Jones
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
1 comment
New research from Amnesty International and the Human Rights Consortium Scotland finds human rights were overlooked as major public service re-designs took place during the first lockdown

https://tfn.scot/news/report-shows-human-rights-ignored-in-delivery-of-public-services-during-covid-19

Leading fascists could see hardline splinter group in Scotland

NEWS 9 March 2022 by Niall Christie
Social Justice & Poverty
Culture & Leisure
Advocacy group Hope not Hate published their annual report - State of HATE 2022: On The March Again. 

https://tfn.scot/news/leading-fascists-could-see-hardline-splinter-group-in-scotland

Outgoing regulator chair says charities must avoid "picking sides"

NEWS 5 February 2021 by Gareth Jones
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
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Baroness Tina Stowell is set to leave the Charity Commission at the end of this month

https://tfn.scot/news/outgoing-regulator-chair-says-charities-must-avoid-picking-sides

Housing crisis just got worse: figures reveal almost 40,000 disabled on waiting lists

NEWS 16 February 2024 by Robert Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#RunningCostsCrisis
#CostOfLivingCrisis
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Claims vulnerable disabled people have been abandoned by Scottish Government

https://tfn.scot/news/housing-crisis-just-got-worse-figures-reveal-almost-40000-disabled-on-waiting-lists

Brexit and the Great Beyond - can Holyrood ‘keep pace’ with the EU on key issues?

Craig Wilson
14 July 2020
Posted in
relationship can be signed, sealed and delivered by the end of the year, we will be in a ‘No Deal Brexit

https://scvo.scot/p/39596/2020/07/14/brexit-and-the-great-beyond-can-holyrood-keep-pace-with-the-eu-on-key-issues

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