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Keeping you up to date on the progress of the Named Person scheme and the NO2NP campaign.
Maggie Mellon debates NSPCC’s Matt Forde in SASO Named Persons event
Posted 8 months agoIt was another packed house for the latest Named Person debate, this time from St George’s Tron, Buchanan Street, Glasgow…
Continue ReadingNO2NP ACTION DAY: SCOTTISH CABINET AT PITLOCHRY
Posted 8 months agoOn Monday this week, around 200 local residents from across Perth and Kinross attended a public meeting hosted by the…
Continue ReadingDUNDEE UNI HEARS OF ‘ILLEGITIMATE AND ILLIBERAL’ NAMED PERSON SCHEME
Posted 8 months agoThere was a packed audience in the University of Dundee’s Dalhousie Building on Monday night, when around 130 students, academics…
Continue Reading“Doesn’t privacy mean anything to these people?”
Posted 8 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 9 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months agoThe Deputy First Minister and Education Secretary John Swinney put a ban on NO2NP’s campaign spokesman Simon Calvert from attending…
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