Category: Civil Liberties

GIRFEC petition revisited (for two minutes)
The (renamed) Education, Children & Young People Committee of the Scottish Parliament has revisited our GIRFEC petition in which we (jointly with Tymes Trust) call for a public inquiry into the human rights impact on families of unlawful GIRFEC data Read More …

Five years on: judgment day remembered by NO2NP campaigners
Five years ago the UK Supreme Court ruled that the key tenets of the Scottish Government’s Named Person scheme were unlawful. In a series of video interviews, members and supporters of the NO2NP team have taken time to share their Read More …

Our Scottish Parliament Petition: The Never Ending Story
In a seemingly never ending loop, the Education & Skills Committee agreed at its virtual meeting on 11 November 2020 to keep our Petition PE01692 (calling for a public inquiry into the human rights impact of GIRFEC) open, and to Read More …

GIRFEC petition update: our latest submission to Committee
Our Petition PE01692 calling for a public inquiry into the human rights impact of GIRFEC was lodged jointly with Tymes Trust in 2018 following a ‘Fringe’ event we had organised for families concerned about increasing state surveillance and interference in Read More …