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Representatives from the Scottish Home Education Forum met with three civil servants from the Scottish Government’s Learning Directorate and Children & Families (GIRFEC) Directorate on 8 August. The forum administrator had contacted the Learning Directorate in May to raise a Read More …
By Alison Preuss, re-blogged from Leahurst66 I am a fan of timelines, as can be seen from my magnum opus GIRFEC and the Cult of SHANARRI – a chronology of significant events on the road to hellbeing and The (continuing) Read More …
In November 2012, the National Risk Framework to Support the Assessment of Children and Young People was published. As a comprehensive useful idiots’ guide to tick-box tyranny based on prevention (i.e. junk) science, the document made no mention of ‘consent’ or Read More …
Joint petitioners to the Scottish Parliament are calling for a public inquiry into the human rights impact of the government’s getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) policy and allied named person scheme, which they say has unleashed an illegal Read More …
Professor John Raven’s latest paper published last month is well worth reading: Some criminal (if not yet criminalised) misapplications of “science”, logic, and power, illustrated from the field of early childhood education From pages 5/6: “How does it come about Read More …
