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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 Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.

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Two child limit entrenching families into poverty

NEWS 21 October 2024 by Rab Armour
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Regeneration & Housing
Removing the cap could lift 500,000 children out of poverty

https://tfn.scot/news/two-child-limit-entrenching-families-into-poverty

Survey lays bare grim reality of child poverty

NEWS 11 September 2024 by Rab Armour
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Regeneration & Housing
Families face daily struggle to support children

https://tfn.scot/news/survey-lays-bare-grim-reality-of-child-poverty

Save the Children warns of devastating impact of aid cuts on children worldwide 

NEWS 4 March 2025 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Management
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Health & Social Care
Funding & Finance
Both the US and UK Governments have announced swingeing cuts to overseas development funding.

https://tfn.scot/news/save-the-children-warns-of-devastating-impact-of-aid-cuts-on-children-worldwide

Free rail travel for companions a boon to those with sight loss

NEWS 24 March 2025 by Rab Armour
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Pilot project hopes to become permanent

https://tfn.scot/news/free-rail-travel-for-companions-a-boon-to-those-with-sight-loss

Government warned Scotland must prepare for ageing population

NEWS 13 July 2022 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Health & Social Care
Regeneration & Housing
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Since 2000, the number of people aged 65 and over in Scotland has increased by a third, while the number of children has fallen by six per cent. 

https://tfn.scot/news/government-warned-scotland-must-prepare-for-ageing-population

Ukraine crisis: how you can help

NEWS 1 March 2022 by Niall Christie
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Funding & Finance
2 comments
Work is being done across Scotland and beyond to support those on the ground in Ukraine

https://tfn.scot/news/scottish-appeals-launched-as-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-continues

Prisoners are the "forgotten victims" of the Covid pandemic

NEWS 19 March 2021 by Graham Martin
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Health & Social Care
Amnesty says jails are a hotbed of virus transmission - and inmates must be vaccinated as a priority

https://tfn.scot/news/prisoners-are-the-forgotten-victims-of-the-covid-pandemic

Study reveals 'appalling' rise in destitution across the UK

NEWS 9 December 2020 by Gareth Jones
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation research was carried out prior to Covid-19

https://tfn.scot/news/study-reveals-appalling-rise-in-destitution-across-the-uk

World's poorest suffer as wealthiest countries buy up vaccine supply

NEWS 15 December 2020 by Graham Martin
Social Justice & Poverty
Environment & International
Health & Social Care
#PeoplesVaccine
Global Covid fightback hampered by rich nations hoarding - calls have been made for a People's Vaccine

https://tfn.scot/news/worlds-poorest-suffer-as-wealthiest-countries-buy-up-vaccine-supply

Scotland’s poorest families’ income deducted to cover debts to public bodies

NEWS 28 November 2022 by Niall Christie
Families & Young People
Social Justice & Poverty
Funding & Finance
Regeneration & Housing
#CostOfLivingCrisis
The report shows that more than half of families with children in Scotland receiving Universal Credit are having their incomes reduced by the DWP to pay off these debts.

https://tfn.scot/news/scotlands-poorest-families-income-deducted-to-cover-debts-to-public-bodies

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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 Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.