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GIRFEC: Getting Information Recorded For Every Child (and the whole family tree!) The home educators’ petition (which was set up purely as an awareness raising tool when it became clear that parents and professionals were being misled into believing that GIRFEC was Read More …
Presentation on GIRFEC Information Sharing (26 January 2015) This presentation was removed from the web, but copies were saved by concerned parents and slides are reproduced below with our commentary. [All subsequently ruled unlawful by the UK Supreme Court in Read More …
BBC Scotland reports emotively today on the alleged ‘Toll of kids missing from school‘. We are unreliably informed that: “In some cases, children are marked as missing because they have moved house and failed to tell the school. Agencies say others disappear Read More …
The NSPCC report on home education is out (original link now dead, see below) Usual warnings about being in a safe place before reading it. The only good bit is: Home-educating parents or carers are not more likely than others to Read More …
As we reported in our recent article, GIRFEC, data mining, consent and the Named Person: who’s misleading whom?, the legal challenge to the anti-family Part 4 of the Children & Young People (Scotland) Act has now been officially launched. A small Read More …
