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Having met with the Scottish Government several times over the past year to raise concerns about some local authorities’ misrepresentation and misapplication of both education legislation and overarching human rights and data protection laws, the Scottish Home Education Forum is Read More …
Representatives from the Scottish Home Education Forum met with three civil servants from the Scottish Government’s Learning Directorate and Children & Families (GIRFEC) Directorate on 8 August. The forum administrator had contacted the Learning Directorate in May to raise a Read More …
By Alison Preuss, re-blogged from Leahurst66 I am a fan of timelines, as can be seen from my magnum opus GIRFEC and the Cult of SHANARRI – a chronology of significant events on the road to hellbeing and The (continuing) Read More …
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 …
According to the latest snippet of Scottish Government spin, the compulsory named person is a point of contact who parents will never need to approach if they choose not to. Lying by omission is still lying, of course. Parents don’t need to approach Read More …
