Professor John Robertson OBA
Popping up as he does on a regular basis to criticise the Scottish Government:
Stephen Boyle, Auditor General for Scotland, said that initial planning about how The Promise would be delivered had not provided “a strong platform for success.”
There’s an intriguing section in the full online BBC Scotland report:
In 2022, Sturgeon [sic] unveiled an 80-step plan which included ending custody for under-18s and creating a national allowance for foster and kinship carers. The reforms also pledged to redesign children’s hearings and overhaul governance by 2030. Sturgeon [sic] has since admitted the programme faces push back from “vested interests” and warned progress has been slow.
Leaving aside the use of ‘Sturgeon’ as opposed to ‘The First Minster’, the fact that the plan still has 5 years to run and that she should have to ‘admit’ to the ‘vested interests’, what are these and why are they not ‘the news?‘
I asked Grok AI:
Now, surely, there’s a job for BBC Scotland’s Disclosure team? UK-owned corporations lobbying against and obstructing SNP plans, milking a Scottish taxpayer-funded public service?
And this:
The SNP’s Named Person scheme, struck down by the UK Supreme Court, itself a dark force and other dark forces on the right, would have helped protect children? There’s a big story, surely?
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John,
I find Meta AI much more informative than @grok.
Perhaps you could try both on the same question for comparison sake?
Best Wishes,
bob
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Thanks Bob
John
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The term ‘struck down’ is not helpful. The Supreme Court held that the Named Person policy’s aim to safeguard and promote children’s wellbeing was legitimate, but the Act’s information‑sharing provisions risked unjustified interference with Article 8 rights to private and family life because confidential information could be disclosed widely without parents’ or children’s awareness.
The Scottish Government paused the statutory rollout but continued named‑person practices under existing child‑protection law and consent‑based information sharing. It revised guidance, tightened data‑sharing tests, required Data Protection Impact Assessments, and stepped up training.
National Child Protection Guidance was updated – see here: National child protection guidance – Child protection – gov.scot
The fact that this work took place with so little press interest shows that the Named Person controversy was just another opportuinty for SNPBad campaiging with no regard for the impact on Scotland’s children.
If England had had anything like a Named Person Scheme in place over the past 20 years, thousands of children could have been prevented from falling through cracks in the system and into the hands of paedophiles. Unionists and the ‘Scottish’ press have no interest in that reality being more widely understood, either here or in England.
Sources include AI (Co-pilot) but also personal investigation.
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Very well explained.
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Falling number of those children in care. Kinship payments, mean children can stay within their own families.
Children in care receive educational grants and support. They do not pay the council tax. They can stay longer with foster parents.
Neurodiverse children receive support. Child payments help keep children out of poverty.
Scottish Gov funding proper, total abstinence rehab facilities £250million over five years. More are opening up. Helping people get well and able to look after families.
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