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The Faculty of Advocates has urged the Scottish Government to “get back to basics” on children’s rights in a robust response to the consultation on children’s service planning. Under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, non-statutory guidance will be issued Read More …
Published in the Scottish Review, 1 June 2016. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the Scottish Government’s named person scheme, due to be steamrollered out in August, is set to add a whole new layer of Read More …
An edited excerpt from this article was published in the Sunday Times Scotland on 29 May 2016: ‘I wouldn’t talk to a stranger’. Faith is home educated and a member of our forum. Faith and the First Minister As a self-proclaimed Read More …
Children’s rights are frequently and increasingly being ‘wronged’ by those who seek to impose obligations in the guise of ‘protecting’ such rights – and never more so than when it comes to children and young people exercising their ‘right to education’. Note that the Read More …
With new bills about to be introduced in both Wales and Scotland which will have the effect, if enacted, of legislating parents out of their children’s lives, these are very worrying times for all families. Such a profound shift of Read More …
