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Keeping you up to date on the progress of the Named Person scheme and the NO2NP campaign.
Named Person data-sharing ditched In Scottish Government U-turn
Posted 7 years agoDeputy First Minister John Swinney announced yet further delays to the Named Person scheme in a statement to the Scottish…
Continue ReadingNamed Person fact check: ‘just needs a few tweaks’
Posted 7 years agoSCOTTISH GOVERNMENT CLAIM: Ever since they lost in the Supreme Court the Scottish Govt has been trying to downplay the…
Continue ReadingNamed Person Fact Check: ‘Intense period of engagement’
Posted 7 years agoSCOTTISH GOVERNMENT CLAIM: “Since the judgement, we have undertaken an intensive period of engagement with children, young people, parents, carers,…
Continue ReadingNO2NP exposes flaws in reply from Better Life Chances Unit
Posted 7 years agoBack in December, NO2NPers wrote in their hundreds to the Deputy First Minister, making sure their concerns were heard as…
Continue ReadingNamed Person Fact Check: ‘legitimate and benign’
Posted 7 years agoSCOTTISH GOVERNMENT CLAIM: “Last year the Supreme Court ruled definitively that the intention of providing a Named Person for every…
Continue ReadingKeeping up appearances of ‘getting it right’
Posted 7 years agoBy Alison Preuss of Home Education Forums Back in September 2016, Deputy First Minister John Swinney reassured Parliament that Named…
Continue ReadingSCOTTISH GOVERNMENT’S VEIL OF SECRECY IN SHAM NAMED PERSON ‘CONSULTATION’
Posted 7 years agoThe Scottish Government has thrown a veil of secrecy around stalled efforts to salvage its Named Person scheme after judges…
Continue ReadingThe strange case of Jekyll, Hyde and the Scottish Government
Posted 7 years agoWhen the Supreme Court handed down its ruling on the Named Person scheme back in July the Scottish Government did…
Continue ReadingBook now: Special one-off NO2NP national gathering in March
Posted 7 years agoNO2NP will be holding a one-off special event, Named Persons: Doomed… or just delayed? in Edinburgh on Monday 20 March,…
Continue ReadingMaggie Mellon debates NSPCC’s Matt Forde in SASO Named Persons event
Posted 7 years agoIt was another packed house for the latest Named Person debate, this time from St George’s Tron, Buchanan Street, Glasgow…
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