Category: Civil Liberties
Children’s commissioner urged to uphold all children’s rights
A home educating parent has launched a petition on Change.org following a disappointing response from the Children’s Commissioner to her children’s pleas for support in upholding their Article 16 rights under the UNCRC. Investigate GIRFEC breaches of UNCRC Article 16, Read More …
The Z-Listers
By Alison Preuss, first published in the Scottish Review, 5 September 2018 Even before the ink was dry on the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) Scotland bill – introduced by John Swinney last June after his original state guardian Read More …
New ‘ACE’ branding, same old junk science
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 …
Postcards from the Fringe briefing
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 …