Posts tagged Employability

The UK Government's stunt around employability funding is insulting to people in Scotland, explains John Read more

Claire Delahay from Glenbiog Neighbourhood House refelects on the benefits of Community Jobs Scotland Read more

Introduction As Scotland prepares for the devolution of social security and employment powers, the third sector welcomes the chance to influence and shape this process, bringing to the fore the voice of the people it supports, whose lives will be affected by the changes to come... Read more

Latest #employability special warns about taking things for granted Read more

Introduction Our starting point is that our economy needs to change. In our discussion paper ‘An Economy for All’ we suggest four guiding principles which should underpin an urgently needed rethinking of our economy: The well-being and collective prosperity of people across... Read more

Empowerment in focus in latest #employability special Read more

As part of our current work on #employability we are sharing a special series of blogs from sector experts Read more

SCVO media release 14 September 2015 The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations has received funding of £1.3m from the Scottish Government to create more jobs for young unemployed people in charities and third sector organisations through Community Jobs Scotland. The... Read more

People contribute to society in different ways at different times. They are driven by a need to support themselves and their families, share things with other people around them and do something meaningful with their lives. Sustainable and meaningful paid employment is the single... Read more

Our response SCVO has, over the past few years, been having a conversation with the third sector about how we can better ‘do’ our economy. SCVO therefore welcomes the opportunity to respond to this consultation and would like to contribute the following points which have come out... Read more