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Claire Keatinge has plenty to say as she reflects on her four years in office as Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland.

It takes a smart and heart approach to make collaboration work

The Mental Capacity Bill discriminates against children and represents a missed opportunity to protect the most vulnerable, argues Eamonn McNally from the Children’s Law Centre

The importance of Welfare Reform in Northern Ireland has shrunk, grown or both - depending on your views - thanks to the Chancellor's July budget. Over 100,000 homes have projected income reductions of over £1,600. Scope takes a look.

Behind the headlines progress is being made in implementing the flagship Transforming Your Care programme, Scope reports. 

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The current political crisis is having unexpected consequences, Scope reports. 

Northern Ireland’s first Open Data Institute (ODI) Node has launched at CultureTECH.

New rules for the accounting, audit and reporting of all charities are currently being consulted on. These proposed new rules will have an impact on every charity, especially small to medium sized charities.

Scope meets Seamus Boyd, the driving force behind Radio Ulster’s flagship Sunday Sequence show. 

Forced labour remains a global scourge. Scope went along to a Law Centre NI conference and spoke with Kevin Hyland, UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and former top cop at the Met, about what can be done.

NICVA is undertaking its next research in to the State of the Sector. This online survey, NICVA’s 7th in this area, will go live in October and we need to hear from you. 

Partnership working is all around us! Yet as many success stories are often matched with horror stories.  From supporting over 900 organisations to work in partnership these are my reflections on how to get it right.

This weekend saw the launch of Detail Data’s third data story as part of the European Conference on Domestic Violence at Queens University, Belfast.

Scope editor Nick Garbutt reflects on the refugee crisis and looks back at Ireland's history of migration 

Scope reports on the latest threat to community and voluntary sector funding

Are there any politicians and commentators who seriously did not know that the IRA still existed? 

Just how serious is the threat to the BBC posed by the Westminster government and should we be worried about it? 

Whatever happened to the Heenan-Anderson Commission?

The second Detail Data story Two years of death and serious injury on Northern Ireland’s roads was published yesterday.