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SCVO response: Criminal Justice Committee consultation on the risks of cybercrime
3 October 2025
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implementation of the Third Sector Cyber Resilience Action Plan (2023-35), in collaboration with Scottish Government,What is your view on the effectiveness of the Scottish Government cyber resilience policies and its most,SCVO has been actively involved in the recent review of Scottish Government’s cyber resilience strategy,These documents are useful in providing direction and focusing alignment across government policies and,It is worth highlighting that the report does not appear to cover the work that the Scottish Government
25 questions charities are asking about AI in 2025
This article covers audience questions that came up during a panel discussion on ‘Putting People and Values at the Heart of AI’ at The Gathering, SCVO’s national convention for charities, on 5 February 2025
https://scvo.scot/support/digital/guides/ai/25-questions-charities-are-asking-about-ai-in-2025
SCVO briefing to Scottish Parliament: Programme for Government 2023/24
2 September 2023
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The Scottish Government’s policy prospectus, New leadership - A fresh start, committed to delivering,To ensure progress is made in 2023/24 the Programme for Government should: Align the Scottish Government,Introduce multi-year funding across a number of Scottish Government funds and report on the impact of,Additional information SCVO’s proposals for the Programme for Government 2023/24 covered three areas:,These proposals were shared with the Scottish Government while the programme was being developed.
How we produced SCVO’s AI policy
1 October 2025
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and using AI tools, and these left some grey areas that weren’t covered by existing IT and data governance,and changing rapidly, so it would be easy to produce a policy that dated very quickly AI use and governance
https://scvo.scot/p/101267/2025/10/01/how-we-produced-scvos-ai-policy
SCA Community Learning Exchange
30 November 2025
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The fund from the Scottish Government has been around since 2015 and since then the programme has enabled,Tackling the climate emergency is a key area in Scotland’s Programme for Government in which communities
https://scvo.scot/p/101091/2025/11/30/sca-community-learning-exchange
You can find the whole range of our recorded webinars on the SCVO YouTube channel - as well as lots more videos curated for the voluntary sector in Scotland. Highlights We've picked some highlights for you here by topic, to get you started:
Making change happen
Digital inclusion and digital skills are at the heart of the Scottish Government and COSLA's digital
Why Fair Funding for the voluntary sector is needed to achieve government's ambitions
20 September 2023
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Prime Minister, the First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf MSP, outlined his first Programme for Government,The PfG is an annual event, which each September, shares the actions that the Scottish Government will,This year we were treated to a sneak peek of what was likely to be included when the Scottish Government’s,Both documents shared the Scottish Government’s “three missions”, each of which overlaps significantly,SCVO response to 2023/24 Programme for Government. Fair Funding for the Voluntary Sector.
Levelling Up and social needs: An analysis of government’s progress - How Levelling Up is missing social needs
The government should change the criteria for the Levelling Up Fund to include social infrastructure,The government should ensure the criteria for the long-awaited UK Shared Prosperity Fund, worth up to,The ‘everyone in’ movement to tackle homelessness during lockdown shows how government and charity sector,These roadmaps should be informed by local data on social needs from both government and the social sector,businesses, faith groups and community groups, should be established to provide intelligence to the government
Familiar Patterns and New Initiatives: UK Civil Society and Government Initial Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
on civil society actors, the paper includes an exploration of how civil society and the national government,familiar patterns of behaviour by civil society in the UK, and in the relationship between the government