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4. Scottish Government Support for the Third Sector
This action plan forms a key part of the Scottish Government's support for the third sector. Our aim is to create the environment where the third sector can maximise its contribution to a successful Scotland. Other elements of the programme include:
- supporting the infrastructure - the Government assists national representative bodies and networks to provide a voice for the sector, and to provide support for third sector organisations from grassroots to national level. In a time of change across Scotland, this support will help ensure the sector's voice is strengthened, not lost, in new structures both at national and, vitally, at local level
- strategic partnerships - developing a series of strategic partnerships with national third sector organisations around shared outcomes. These partnerships will provide a mechanism to allow the third sector to contribute effectively to Scottish Government policy
- supporting the roles the third sector plays in our communities across Scotland, encouraging structures which enable the sector to deliver more effectively on a local basis and to act as an advocate through clear strategic links to community planning and outcome agreements
- supporting volunteering - through infrastructure support, funding and award development
These actions will help the third sector carry out its key representational and advocacy roles, building a strong civil society in Scotland, a country in which every individual can play a role. This action plan recognises the contribution that the third sector can make when it operates in an enterprising way - identifying need, delivering services, creating employment and providing opportunities in areas of deprivation.
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