GIRFEC Named Person data collection and sharing: examples of unlawful guidance

These examples of unlawful data sharing policies (compiled in August 2017) were all rubber stamped  a year before the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 was passed and more than three years before its information sharing provisions (later struck Read More …

New attempt to legalise state snooping ‘doomed to disaster’

Published in the Scottish Sunday Express, 6 August 2017. Print edition here. Attempt to legalise state snooping on families is ‘doomed to disaster’ THE SNP’s latest attempt to legalise state snooping on families is “doomed to disaster”, according to a Read More …

Parents under surveillance on social media

Edited version published in the Scottish Sunday Express, 9 July 2017. This parent turned to home education when her child’s needs were not met in school and complaints went unaddressed. Council’s ‘creepy’ spies snoop on Facebook and pass on pupil’s Read More …

Advantage O’Neill as GIRFEC Newspeak exposed

We thought we should post an update on the GIRFEC judicial review appeal hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh before judges Lord Carloway, Lord Malcolm and Lord Bracadale. It is to be hoped that three judicial heads are better than Read More …