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Scotland: rights trumped

Scotland: rights trumped

Christians Institute / en

On 3 and 4 June The Christian Institute were in Scotland’s highest court, the Inner House of the Court of Session, fighting to protect parents from the Named Person scheme.

In late May a senior civil servant said: ‘Every child deserves to have positive well-being’ and noted – in a bizarre twisting of 1 Corinthians 13 – that indicators of wellbeing to be used by these state guardians could include ‘love, hope and spirituality’.