A Named Parent for every professional?

The Myles Bradbury case brings into sharp focus the inherent dangers of the universal Scottish Named Person scheme, which promotes professional power-over access to every child and facilitates the gathering and sharing of every child’s (and every associated adult’s) sensitive personal data among a large number Read More …

Inverness NO2NP roadshow presentation

The NO2NP Inverness roadshow on 1 October 2014 attracted a lively audience concerned about the implications of the Children and Young People Act for every family in Scotland. The NO2NP campaign has now uploaded Alison Preuss’s presentation to its YouTube channel. Read More …

The NSPCC report on home education is out

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 …

Who’s going to fix it when they ‘get it wrong’ for our child?

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 …