News
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20Jan
Aid Agencies Critical of their Own Response to East African CrisisDelays in aid cost thousands of lives
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16Dec 2011
Health and Social Care Plans Must Go Further, Say Charities
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon’s plans to introduce a bill to reform health and social care services must go further, Scottish charities said this week.
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9Dec 2011
Unity and SCVO launch £50m business centre fund
A Major £50m loan fund is set to create a series of third sector business hubs across Scotland over the next five years.
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2Dec 2011
Third Sector Calls for a Bigger Role in Employment
THIRD sector groups are demanding the UK government acknowledges the crucial role they play in employment initiatives as speculation grows they will be excluded from the new £1bn Youth Contract.
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28Nov 2011
A Glass Ceiling Still Exists in the Third Sector
Women are still experiencing a glass ceiling when it comes to pay and promotion in the third sector, new research has found.
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11Nov 2011
Poverty Campaigners Demand Halt to Welfare Reform Agenda
CAMPAIGNERS are demanding that the UK Government immediately reviews its welfare reform programme after an influential study forecast that 115,000 Scots could be forced off Incapacity Benefit (IB).
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4Nov 2011
Big Society is a toxic brand in Scotland
Two third sector leaders have lambasted the UK government’s Big Society concept, classing it as “toxic” and claiming it carries “too many negative connotations” for Scots.
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28Oct 2011
Third sector predicts further financial gloom
CHARITIES are picking up the pieces of a drop in living standards and public funding cuts in Scotland, new figures revealed this week.
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21Oct 2011
Children’s charities worried they can’t meet need
Prominent Scottish charities fear they won’t be able to cope with a growing influx of children and families turning to them for support.
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7Oct 2011
Charities Push to Devolve the Benefits System
CHARITIES this week urged MSPs to make a case for devolving the benefits system to Scotland.