On this day: 7 years on, we give thanks for ‘No to Named Persons’
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Seven years ago, on 9 June 2014, the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) campaign was launched at the Macdonald Holyrood Hotel in Edinburgh.
Over 200 people came to hear speakers from social work, medicine, academia and politics highlight the dangers of the new named person legislation voted through by MSPs the previous February.
A mandatory state guardian was to be imposed on every family in Scotland to “safeguard” the “wellbeing” of all children under the age of 18. State intervention could happen when “any concern” about a child’s “wellbeing” was raised (“wellbeing” was eventually defined as “happiness”).
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