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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 Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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Why do trustees need to bother about cyber security?

and merely views ALL organisations as a route to getting money or their hands on that super-valuable data,The Small Charity Guide is a great introduction to some of the easily achievable actions your organisation,As I highlighted during my introduction, cyber security remains as vital today as ever before – possibly,Four steps you can take now to protect your organisation against cyber risks in 2021: Join our Good Governance

https://scvo.scot/p/41929/2021/01/06/why-do-trustees-need-to-bother-about-cyber-security

Access to Community Facilities

SCVO Access to Community Facilities BriefingDownload Introduction Having access to community facilities,a wellbeing economy we need to reframe community facilities as vital public services, which must be protected,Having infographics and data to show the sheer size of the sector was deemed beneficial.

https://scvo.scot/p/40968/2020/10/27/access-to-community-facilities

Renewing Scotland’s full potential in a digital world

We would strongly encourage the introduction of ‘Digital Inclusion Impact Assessments’ for any organisation,This was also highlighted in Protecting Scotland, Renewing Scotland: The Government’s Programme for Scotland,approach that recognises internet access on the same level as essential utilities, thereby offering protections,establishing home internet as an essential utility and giving vulnerable customers the right to greater protections,data is being used.

https://scvo.scot/p/42425/2020/12/24/renewing-scotlands-full-potential-in-a-digital-world

Right Approach Campaign: July - December 2016

Introduction In 2016 the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) produced the Right Approach,As the year progressed, the situation threatened to deteriorate even more for human rights protection,engage politicians in order to raise awareness of the campaign and the vital work of the sector in protecting,Analysis of the data only gives so much of an insight and cannot determine each individual who looked

https://scvo.scot/p/14613/2017/02/28/right-approach-campaign-july-december-2016

Local funding survey

Commentary Introduction In this report, we demonstrate the many difficulties and intricacies of local,Jenny Bloomfield, Policy Officer, Spring 2017 Introduction to the data The third sector is diverse, working,The data for this paper is based on responses from 473 of our members to a survey which we conducted,themselves dipping into reserves whilst waiting for promised funding to come through; still others have to protect,Nor do they help with long-term planning, staff and volunteer retention, or protecting organisations

https://scvo.scot/p/15064/2017/04/25/local-funding-survey

Continuing the return to work theme – the IT blog

Remember to delete all business-related data off personal devices, especially any personal information,that might put you at risk of a data breach.,requirements under GDPR/Data Protection 2018 regulations.,always on access to important documents – maybe it’s time to revise your IT strategy to ensure that data,As I mentioned at the introduction to this blog – this is just a whistle stop tour of things IT related

https://scvo.scot/p/39792/2020/07/30/blog-return-to-work-it

Analysis of Scottish Government Programme for Government

in other areas of the economy, however, our members may expect this analysis to be founded on solid data,This will be supported with £500 million of funding over three years and backed by the introduction of,The Scottish Government will use this data to more accurately assess the extent of the attainment gap,Whilst protection of health services and efforts to protect workforce numbers and working conditions/,The introduction of secondary legislation to enhance the Land Reform Bill.

https://scvo.scot/p/13545/2016/09/08/analysis-of-scottish-government-programme-for-government

Scottish Parliament European and External Relations Committee Written Call for Evidence - Scotland’s relationship with the EU

charities fear for the fate of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the rights and legal protections,These protections include EU rules on procurement by public bodies; the air passengers regulation, which,It has been suggested that a creeping erosion of rights protecting disabled people, perhaps over many,Rural Affairs has consistently pushed for a weakening of EU air pollution limits and a delay to their introduction,anti-poverty charities, health charities, and employability charities, all of whom share learning, data

https://scvo.scot/p/13623/2016/09/05/scotland-relationship-with-the-eu

SCVO Briefing - Welfare Reform and Work Bill

Introduction Sadly, SCVO and other third sector organisations find themselves having to brief MPs on,It completely removes the safety net that is in place to protect young people whose circumstances often,Barnardos Scotland accuses the UK Government of failing to protect children, whilst the cuts to Employment,Rather than protecting people who are potentially vulnerable or face different life challenges, unpaid,This flies in the face of the Government’s claim that it is protecting disabled people.

https://scvo.scot/p/9634/2015/07/15/scvo-briefing-welfare-reform-and-work-bill

Lobbying Transparency Bill - SCVO consultation response

The core principles described are largely successful in defining what the introduction of a register,They have the responsibility to protect the integrity of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government,Compiling and recording the data on their activity would be much less time consuming if completed on,Lobbying is also often associated with money and protection of interests which is very different from,transparency against the time burden on lobbyists and the possibility of creating an enormous amount of data

https://scvo.scot/p/9679/2015/07/24/lobbying-transparency-bill-scvo-consultation-response

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