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Keeping you up to date on the progress of the Named Person scheme and the NO2NP campaign.
PARENTS TRAINED ON HOW TO GIVE THEIR KIDS STATE-APPROVED “GOOD LIFE”
Posted 10 years agoParents will be told at a training day today that their children will be monitored by state officials who will…
Continue ReadingNO2NP Roadshow: Dumfries highlights
Posted 10 years agoThere was a good turnout at the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries on Wednesday night for the latest stop of…
Continue ReadingONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL CHECKLIST FOR PARENTING? … IF ONLY IT WAS SO SIMPLE…
Posted 10 years agoThe latest addition to the Scottish Government’s parenting toolbox comes in the form of a tidy tick list. The one-size-fits-all…
Continue ReadingNO2NP ROADSHOW: GALASHIELS HIGHLIGHTS
Posted 10 years agoThe latest NO2NP Roadshow event was held on a beautiful, sunny evening in Galashiels last night. Gordon Macdonald, who is…
Continue ReadingTEEN PREGNANCY: DEFINITELY INFORM NAMED PERSON, BUT NOT SURE ABOUT PARENTS, SAYS GOVERNMENT QC
Posted 10 years agoDuring last week’s appeal hearing against the Named Person law, the Scottish Government’s QC told the court that if a…
Continue Reading‘This is about empowering Named Person to police happiness of Scottish children’
Posted 10 years agoDuring a BBC Radio Scotland debate last week Lesley Scott of ME children’s charity TYMES Trust, a supporter of NO2NP,…
Continue Reading‘All children potentially vulnerable’, Scottish Government QC tells judge
Posted 10 years agoLast week’s appeal hearing rehearsed many concerning reasons why the Named Person scheme is not compatible with a free and…
Continue Reading“Isn’t there something slightly East German about this?”
Posted 10 years agoFlashback to July 2014: BBC’s Gordon Brewer questions Children’s Minister Aileen Campbell about the Named Person scheme. (Skip to 10…
Continue ReadingDay 2 of appeal against Named Person plans
Posted 10 years agoA QC representing the Scottish Government has told judges hearing an appeal against the Named Person law that the scheme…
Continue Reading‘THIS IS WORSE THAN THE NANNY STATE’, QC TELLS COURT ON DAY 1 OF APPEAL
Posted 10 years agoYesterday, Aidan O’Neill QC, representing campaigners challenging the Named Person scheme, told Scotland’s highest court that the plan to give…
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