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*This blog originally featured on the Scottish Government's blog site on 5 April 2018.

For the pace of progress to increase, governments, civil society organisations, businesses and communities,This measures and reports on progress of government in Scotland and the Scottish Government has committed,A ‘whole-of-government’ approach to implementing the SDGs is vital.,Governments, civil society organisations, businesses and communities must work together and learn from,We need coherent implementation of the SDGs across Government and a meaningful forum for all parts of

human rights are an important part of the work of both the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government,acute recent example of this was with the Social Security Bill and the refusal of the Scottish Government,balances are standard practice for any piece of human rights legislation but, sadly, the Scottish Government

full document here: SCVO Social Security Bill Briefing Stage 2 Part 3 Our position The Scottish Government’s,If the Scottish Government is committed to realising rights, we believe a rights-based approach must,To ensure the Scottish Government realises their human rights aspirations we would urge the Scottish,Government to further engage with the SHRC ahead of Stage 3.,and a Scottish Government amendment to the Bill.

With MSPs back from the summer recess, the First Minister outlined her Programme for Government for the,The programme was trailed as the Scottish Government’s “most ambitious plan ever”, containing details,Rights of the Child into policy and legislation was promised and it was made clear that the Scottish Government,With the prospect of a ‘live experiment’ in the offing, we need to work with the Scottish Government,Like so many budgets and programmes for government before, this week’s announcement is packed with warm

Briefing As we have said before – most recently in the passing of the Scottish Government’s 2015 Procurement

Responsibility for employability was eventually transferred to the Scottish Government as part of the,changes to people’s lives can make money out of you then that seems to be fine with the Scottish Government

Download as PDF - SCVO Social Security Bill Briefing Stage 2 Part 2 Our position The Scottish Government’s,If the Scottish Government is committed to realising rights, a rights-based approach must be embedded,throughout the legislation, failure to do so, will allow future governments to ignore the Scottish Government,The Scottish Government have recognised that through a rights-based approach to social security we can,Open Government ambitions.

Do we have good governance in place to ensure we are well run?,we are launching an ‘I Love Charity’ campaign to inspire trust in charities, to promote better governance

Withdrawal) Bill, we still hold real concerns about the stock transfer of power from parliament to the government,counterparts in Wales – WCVA - to offer our backing to amendments tabled by the Scottish and Welsh Governments,While these amendments were defeated in the House of Commons, it seems that the UK Government have accepted,At SCVO we welcomed the recent publication of the Scottish Government’s refreshed Scottish Government,It merits a wider discussion and now requires proper engagement and responses from the UK Government