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Holyrood staff refuse to hand over named-person witnesses (The Times) Holyrood staff refused demands from civil servants working for the Scottish government to hand over the identities of committee witnesses, it has been revealed. One clerk was so concerned about “inappropriate” Read More …
Evidence from families affected by GIRFEC View the postcards submitted by families Briefing paper Desired outcomes Scrap the current bill.* Neither legislation nor policy can change the overarching legal framework or the consent threshold upheld by the Supreme Court Read More …
[Re-blogged] The wheels on the GIRFEC data mining bus are still going round and round all day long It is no surprise to those of us who have done our research and listened to countless victims’ experiences of data theft Read More …
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 …
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 …
