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Keeping you up to date on the progress of the Named Person scheme and the NO2NP campaign.
Highland Named Person an opponent, actually, of families
Posted 10 years 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 years 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 10 years 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 10 years 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Posted 10 years agoLike out-of-date milk was the Information Commissioner’s 2013 data-sharing advice to public bodies following the Supreme Court ruling in July….
Continue ReadingScot Gov ordered to pay petitioners’ legal bills
Posted 10 years agoThe Scottish Government has repeatedly tried to claim the Named Person Supreme Court legal challenge failed, even though judges stated…
Continue ReadingLord Advocate ignored human rights concerns before bill passed
Posted 10 years agoIf only someone had sounded the alarm about the potential of the Named Person scheme to breach human rights **…
Continue ReadingThe facts behind Swinney’s Highland Council ‘utopian’ claims
Posted 10 years agoUtopia: “an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.” You would perhaps expect to see ‘utopian’…
Continue ReadingNO2NP wins award for ‘Public Campaigner of the Year’
Posted 10 years agoNO2NP has won the award for “Public Campaigner of the Year” at The Herald’s Scottish Politician of the Year Awards…
Continue ReadingNO2NP Action Day: Scottish Greens Autumn Conference
Posted 10 years agoReport by Lesley Scott of Tymes Trust It was a cold, damp Saturday morning as our dedicated NO2NP volunteers gathered…
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