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Keeping you up to date on the progress of the Named Person scheme and the NO2NP campaign.
“Doesn’t privacy mean anything to these people?”
Posted 6 months agoMum exasperated by unlawful info sharing and ‘Named Person knows best’ attitude A mum of a child with cerebral palsy…
Continue ReadingHas your council run a Named Person scheme?
Posted 6 months agoCouncil Status of Named Persons Aberdeen City Council The Named Person scheme was implemented within Aberdeen City in 2012. The…
Continue ReadingNO2NP ACTION DAY ROUNDUP: EDUCATION GOVERNANCE ROADSHOW
Posted 7 months agoWhen Deputy First Minister John Swinney recently told concerned parents he would not be holding public meetings to listen to…
Continue ReadingOops! Info watchdogs exposed in embarrassing email gaffes
Posted 7 months agoInformation watchdogs have been criticised over disparaging comments made in emails when the Scottish Government lost the Named Person legal…
Continue ReadingWhy are local councils still saying children have Named Persons?
Posted 8 months agoThe UK Supreme Court back in July struck down the information-sharing provisions at the heart of the Named Person scheme….
Continue ReadingHighland Named Person an opponent, actually, of families
Posted 8 months agoGIRFEC has been running in parts of Highland for ten years and has been fully implemented across the whole region…
Continue ReadingSwinney leaves NO2NP’s campaign spokesman out in the cold
Posted 8 months agoThe Deputy First Minister and Education Secretary John Swinney put a ban on NO2NP’s campaign spokesman Simon Calvert from attending…
Continue ReadingNO2NP ACTION DAY: GIRFEC THIRD SECTOR CONFERENCE, EDINBURGH
Posted 8 months agoAs part of its efforts to promote its GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) policy, the Scottish Government has…
Continue ReadingNO2NP ACTION DAY: SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT ROADSHOW, ABERDEEN
Posted 8 months agoDeputy First Minister John Swinney told the Education and Skills Committee a few weeks ago that he wasn’t prepared to…
Continue ReadingOut-of-date ICO data-sharing advice assigned to the dustbin
Posted 8 months agoLike out-of-date milk was the Information Commissioner’s 2013 data-sharing advice to public bodies following the Supreme Court ruling in July….
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