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Act will affect every family with children (Scotland "Named Person Act"
The Scotsman ^ | 12/21/15 | Mark Boni

Posted on 01/10/2016 12:04:31 PM PST by Faith Presses On

The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, which received Royal Assent in March 2014, will assign a "named person" to every child in Scotland up to the age of 18 (and even beyond should the child remain in school after 18). The only exception applies to children of persons in the armed forces.

The named person, for example a midwife, health worker or school teacher, will have the power to receive and share information about the child in a number of circumstances. The legislation as presently framed does not provide a parent with any say in who the named person may be and indeed once appointed, the identity of that person may not be released. Whilst already operating in parts of Scotland, the scheme is due to be rolled out nationally by August 2016.

The functions that the named person will undertake include advising and supporting the child or parent, helping the child or parent access support or services or discussing or raising a matter about that child with other public bodies.

The arguments critical of this legislation include that:-

• resources presently available should be used to ensure those most a risk are helped;

• it is heavy-handed and an unnecessary intrusion on the rights of parents to determine how to bring up their children;

• data sharing/retention provisions of the act do not conform with European law and are therefore are unlawful;

• even if they do not breach EU law, they do not comply with the protections set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 including the concern that the named person may apply the 2014 act without having to involve the child or parents, seek their consent, or tell them when they are receiving/sharing the information; without (1) any assessment into the child's particular need for heightened state supervision or (2) the parents having a right to opt out of the scheme, the act is disproportionate and as such constitutes a breach of fundamental rights protected through the ECHR, EU and the common law.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda21; parentalrights; scotland; secularhumanism; twocountries; unitednations
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1 posted on 01/10/2016 12:04:31 PM PST by Faith Presses On
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To: Faith Presses On

I wonder why it doesn’t apply to children of persons in the armed forces? Seems to me that the lefties would be most concerned about exercising control over them.


2 posted on 01/10/2016 12:07:56 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: Faith Presses On

Scotland is now a totally cucked nation. How sad.


3 posted on 01/10/2016 12:08:33 PM PST by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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To: Faith Presses On

What happened to the Scots?


4 posted on 01/10/2016 12:19:45 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Faith Presses On

The named person, for example a midwife, health worker or school teacher,
= = =

Same person for all 18 years, or can the person change: die, or move, or become non-expert for a different stage of the kid and family’s life?


5 posted on 01/10/2016 12:20:26 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: Faith Presses On
Consider me old-fashioned, but the "named person" responsible for the children should be the two parents.

Such logic must be lost on the Scots, who seem to have fallen in love with the social welfare police state. The fools. They've invited the government's nose under their tent, into their homes, and the entire Beast is going to be pushing behind that nose to get its entire body inside.

"People get the government they deserve," is the aphorism. So with the Scots. Enjoy it, silly Scotland. Enjoy it. Let us know how it all turns out fer ye!

Sauron

Even in Mordor, we don't have *that* kind of police state!

6 posted on 01/10/2016 12:20:50 PM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: Faith Presses On

Just Scotland? Not the rest of the U.K.?


7 posted on 01/10/2016 12:21:36 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Trump or Cruz in 2016. No others need apply.)
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To: BenLurkin; The Scot
What happened to the Scots?

I don't know, let's ask one.

8 posted on 01/10/2016 12:22:46 PM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: Faith Presses On

Not only no but hell no!

This can’t be true. Who and why would anyone vote for such?


9 posted on 01/10/2016 12:25:47 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Faith Presses On

They are sick over there and getting sicker by the day.


10 posted on 01/10/2016 12:28:54 PM PST by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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Ooooh! How exciting! Will they have a lottery to choose who your child's "named person" is? Will it be cronyism?

I can see it now. You and your wife have a baby. Now you go to the "named person" center. There are pictures on the wall of the eligible "persons". One is a transvestite. One is obviously a dyke. Another is clearly a flaming homo. There is one girl who looks okay except for the tattoo of Beelzebub on her neck. Another has rings in his nose, ears, eyebrows and tongue. And yet another looks like a regular girl - red hair, no tattoos and is dressed properly.

Now comes the big event. You reach into a jar and pull out a folded piece of paper that has the picture of "person" to be slated for your precious child. You begin to unfold it but your hand starts to shake. Your vision blurs. "Oh, God. Please let it be the girl who looks normal!" you plea silently for to say it out loud would be looked on as bigotry.

The picture slowly reveals it to be....

Jeez, my heart started to pound just writing that.

11 posted on 01/10/2016 12:31:35 PM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
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To: Faith Presses On
How delightful.

Wonder when they are going to pass a law outlawing the "unspeakable words"?

12 posted on 01/10/2016 12:32:08 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: ZULU

If you are a rational, traditional Brit, Scott or Welshman, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!! COME HERE! We need you. Europe is finished, there still is SOME hope here. Think about it!!!!


13 posted on 01/10/2016 12:32:59 PM PST by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

It seems like step one is Scotland.

Of course anyone who thinks it’s just step one is “paranoid” until it actually happens to the rest of the UK.

And it’s “extremely paranoid” to think secular humanists here will be cheering this on and working towards implementing this here. After all, that’s *Scotland* way across the world.

It will be “extremely paranoid” to talk about this happening here until it’s actually officially proposed and implemented.


14 posted on 01/10/2016 12:34:28 PM PST by Faith Presses On ("After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations...")
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To: BenLurkin

Sad, isn’t it?


15 posted on 01/10/2016 12:38:09 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Faith Presses On
Can we loan Scotland some of our Obamacare "Navigators"?


16 posted on 01/10/2016 12:49:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Faith Presses On

When what do you expect when you elect nationalist socialists? There’s a reason some folks refer to the SNP as the “Scottish Nazi Party”.


17 posted on 01/10/2016 12:57:28 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Faith Presses On
"The named person, for example a midwife, health worker or school teacher,"





18 posted on 01/10/2016 1:22:01 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
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To: Faith Presses On

WTF?


19 posted on 01/10/2016 1:23:46 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Marie

Scotland is now a totally cucked nation.


Is this just a polite way of posting the F word?


20 posted on 01/10/2016 1:26:25 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall.)
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