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’.
Concerns have been raised as to the ‘swamping’ of people like social workers with unnecessary work and thus prevent vulnerable children getting the help they need. In early June the BBC reported on the result of a Freedom of Information Request on local authorities and the number of girls who are pregnant and boys and girls who are in prison who were under the care of the local authority. The figures were hugely disproportionate to the numbers of children in care thus showing that the state is already overwhelmed with genuine care problems without routinely being responsible for every child in the nation.
