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TFN is published by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6BB. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Registration number SC003558.

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TV programme exposes foul play by benefit advisers
​Programme shows advisers withholding details of payments
NEWS 9 March 2015 by Robert Armour
 
Staggering one-in-five benefit claimants sanctioned
Analysis of government figures reveals massive rise in sanctions
NEWS 9 March 2015 by Robert Armour
 
Book voices women’s stories of sectarianism
​New approach to tackling sectarianism
NEWS 6 March 2015 by Robert Armour
 
Scottish group that helps women out of poverty doubles in size
WEvolution awarded £200,000 funding
NEWS 6 March 2015 by Paul Cardwell
 
Criticism as school brands Palestinians “terrorists”
​Campaign group brands council "ignorant" over homework furore
NEWS 4 March 2015 by Robert Armour
 
Save The Children “sorry” for Blair award
Save The Children admits Tony Blair should not have been given humanitarian honour
NEWS 3 March 2015 by Graham Martin
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Church starts a movement to end foodbanks
Church of Scotland suggests food co-ops and allotments could help stop rise of food poverty
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Paul Cardwell
 
Family say blogger faces beheading
Amnesty International looking into claims made by Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's family that he is to be retried
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Paul Cardwell
 
Welfare cuts cost disabled £2,000 a year
Research reveals true cost of cuts on most vulnerable
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Robert Armour
 
Privacy fury at big brother database plans
Plans to share confidential NHS information could infringe civil liberties, say campaigners
NEWS 2 March 2015 by Graham Martin
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