Scottish Home Ed Forum highlights fundamental flaws in information sharing bill

New named person bill still fails to ‘get it right’ The Scottish Home Education Forum has warned that the government’s latest attempt to revive its controversial named person scheme will fall foul of the same overarching human rights and data Read More …

Ever-decreasing circles

Published in the Scottish Review, 16 August 2017. Hyperlinks to sources have been added to aid independent research. A new, dedicated information-sharing bill has finally been introduced to parliament in a bid to remedy defective sections of the Children and Read More …

GIRFEC Named Person data collection and sharing: examples of unlawful guidance

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 …