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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

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

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‘Ask and Act’ are new duties proposed in the Housing (Scotland) Bill that requires public bodies to ask about a person’s housing situation early—and take action to prevent homelessness before it happens. The Scottish Government’s Homelessness Prevention Pilot Fund (up to £4 million) supports a range of bodies including, local authorities, Health Boards, the police service, registered social landlords, prisons, along with 3rd Sector Organisations experienced in preventing homelessness. The pilots will develop, test, scale and cost the new prevention duties in real-world settings. The fund is being administered by Advice Direct Scotland. It is designed to help public bodies, alongside third sector organisations experienced in preventing homelessness, prepare for and test the practical application of the new prevention duties with a particular focus on how ‘Ask and Act’ can be effectively embedded in day-to-day practice. It will also help relevant bodies and others to scope out the groups most at risk of homelessness, identify resource requirements, and best practice approaches.Examples of the types of approaches the fund will support are:- Early intervention and targeted prevention activity.- Multi-agency approaches to support people navigating housing, healthand social care services.- Partnership models and processes that can be replicated and scaled.- Collaborations involving shared resources, data and transitional orreferred services.- Initiatives that centre people at risk of homelessness and/or people with direct experience of homelessness in the design and delivery of theservice.- Initiatives that target groups at risk of homelessness and critical points- in service pathways that have been identified as leading tohomelessness.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0RP1000007gPCTMA2/homelessness-prevention-pilot-fund-ask-act-

The Supporting Partners programme provides funding to projects that will improve support for Service partners and spouses regarding the skills and experiences they bring to the workplace. Projects should have a positive, lasting impact for partners of Serving Personnel or Reservists based in the UK or overseas.Your project will need to show that it will improve access to support, and will celebrate the skills and experiences spouses and partners bring to the workplace.Your project must meet one of the following aims.- Enable partners to access knowledge and information that’s relevant to employment opportunities.- Improve access to education, training, and qualifications for partners.- Communicate the skills and experiences that partners are able to bring to the workplace.Project ideas should be hands on, impactful and targeted. You could explore ways of upskilling partners of Serving Personnel or Reservists through training, education and qualifications. Your projects might support partners to access paid employment, by finding ways to connect more partners to existing support.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0R3z00000PUiTyEAL/armed-forces-covenant-fund-supporting-partners-programme

Perspectives on Early Years Services: Qualitative Research with Service Users

The Scottish Government commissioned GEN and Illuminate (specialist 'drama in education' practitioners,development of the Early Years Framework which was launched in December 2008 and which the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/perspectives-on-early-years-services-qualitative-research-with-service-users

Green finance, land reform and a just transition to net zero - a discussion paper

fiscal measures on the land market and identifies a suite of interventions by which the Scottish Government,use, ensuring that any future fiscal measures are fully aligned to delivering the full range of Government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/green-finance-land-reform-and-a-just-transition-to-net-zero-a-discussion-paper

SCVO Water Rates Exemption Scheme: charity feedback 2017

To inform the 2017 Scottish Government review of the water rates exemption scheme, SCVO collected feedback,Attachments: SCVO's recommendations to Scottish Government, based on survey responses Full survey response

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/scvo-water-rates-exemption-scheme-charity-feedback-2017

We can’t challenge poverty without Fair Funding for the voluntary sector

in is simply unsustainable and this is a situation that is not only not helped by the Scottish Government’s,We have welcomed the Scottish Government commitment to Fairer Funding by 2026 but this must reflect and,extra finances, will continue to be at the heart of what SCVO asks, and expects, from the Scottish Government

https://scvo.scot/p/62876/2023/10/10/we-cant-challenge-poverty-without-fair-funding-for-the-voluntary-sector

Public sector funding of the voluntary sector

Local authorities account for around half of all public sector funding, and Scottish Government accounts,The rest comes from NHS/Health & Social Care Partnerships, UK Government and European funds and Non-departmental

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/public-sector-funding-of-the-voluntary-sector

Life in the UK: Scotland 2024. A measure of Scotland's collective wellbeing

Democratic crisis: Trust in government and politics has reached a record low, with over three quarters,Carnegie UK urges both the London and Edinburgh governments to work on rebuilding public confidence by

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/life-in-the-uk-scotland-2024-a-measure-of-scotlands-collective-wellbeing

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