John Robertson OBA
The ‘Scottish’ Daily Express front page claim that ‘unregistered emergency carers are able to operate on a short-term basis with no regulatory oversight due to a legal anomaly might place children directly into the hands of predators‘ is in the Scottish context, a complete lie. The English edition makes that clear.1
A quick AI question gets an unambiguous response:
In Scotland are unregistered emergency carers able to operate on a short term basis or is this a loophole only in England?
No, in Scotland, unregistered emergency carers are not permitted to operate on a short-term basis—registration with the Care Inspectorate is mandatory for providing regulated care services, including for children and young people. This contrasts with England, where a loophole or misuse of regulations has allowed unregistered placements in emergency situations, though it’s illegal and under scrutiny.Key Differences in Regulations
- England: Local authorities sometimes place children in unregistered children’s homes or unregulated settings as a last-resort emergency measure, especially for those with complex needs, due to placement shortages. For instance, short-term stays (e.g., up to a month) in unregistered homes have been used during crises like placement breakdowns or while awaiting secure beds, despite Ofsted clarifying that no short-term exemption exists under the Care Standards Act 2000. This has raised concerns about risks to vulnerable children, including potential exploitation, and is considered illegal if the setting provides care and accommodation without registration.2
- Scotland: All care services for children, including emergency or short-term placements, must be registered under the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010. While registered care homes can temporarily exceed capacity (e.g., for one child on a single occasion) in true emergencies under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995—with strict safeguards like risk assessments, local authority approval, and Care Inspectorate notification within 24 hours—unregistered providers cannot operate at all, even briefly. There’s no equivalent loophole; operating without registration is prohibited, and emergency relaxations apply only to existing registered services. 3
This stricter approach in Scotland aims to ensure consistent oversight.
Sources:
- https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2142309/grooming-gangs-could-exploit-child
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5e43c51140f0b677c3e37f90/Use_of_unregulated_and_unregistered_provision_for_children_in_care.pdf
- https://www.getborderless.co.uk/blog/who-needs-to-register-with-care-inspectorate
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Is this same Daily Express (drop the ‘Scottish’ part) that was reported as those who:
“consistently and heavily criticized the SNP’s “Named Person” scheme, often referring to it as an “Orwellian,” “totalitarian” “state guardian” or “snoopers’ charter”.
Flip Flop Journalism also , where black becomes white and then we see that anything , indeed everything, is consistently to be disagreed with and so then condemned within Scotland especially when it is something that is generated from the Scottish government under the SNP.
How many times does the gutter press contradict themselves just to get one over on someone…….they are consistently wrong, deliberately misleading, totally politically partisan, utterly toxic and they lack any accountability and responsibility for their terrible front page headlines produced to incite rage in certain types of people and also to mislead people with their fake ( supposed real ) news.
The Daily Express , this is the ‘newspaper’ that endorsed Liz Truss in the Tory leadership elections in 2022………so maybe they are not best equipped to judge anyone else then , as look at how her tenure as PM worked out….disaster.
Here is some of their, Express’s, more hateful , misleading and distasteful past front page headlines to either try to mislead (con) people or incite hate and rage in some certain types of people:
“Germans declare war on our £” (incite hate and rage and misleading people).
“Put faith in Truss to deliver for Britain” (mislead people aka conning them).
“One in 5 Britons will be ethnics” (incite hate and rage).
“500,000 migrants get social housing” (incite hate and rage).
“92% want to quit the EU” (incite hate and rage and mislead people)
“Fury over Britain’s 2m illegal immigrants” (incite hate and rage)
“EU wants migrants to take our jobs” (incite hate and rage and misleading people).
“Migrants take all new jobs in Britain” (incite hate and rage and misleading people).
“Migrants milking Britain’s Benefits” (incite hate and rage and misleading people).
“SNP accused of putting votes ahead of Scot’s Jews safety” (incite hate and rage and misleading people).
“Sturgeon’s ‘crocodile tears’ at Covid Indy grilling” (incite hate and rage and misleading people).
“FM’s links with vile CyberNat Trolls” – picture of Nicola Sturgeon (incite hate and rage and misleading people).
This above is just a small taste of some of the vile, inciteful and widely off the mark front page headlines from this rag , the Express , that has consistently always tried to manipulate and deceive readers into believing their tripe that they present as their version of (fake) news………as if they are ever in a place where they can judge others.
Not an actual newspaper but more like Trolls , whose job it is , as Trolls, is for them to try to target all people with whom their various owners, past and present, either want to be destroyed or removed from their UK State (England) and their other (obvious) mission is to promote those right wing politicians and right wing parties who their owners, past and present, support and in some cases even donate to politically.
(Their former owner, Richard Desmond, donated money to the Tory party, indeed there was a scandal involving him and the then Tory Housing Secretary , Robert Jenrick , on a tax matter that would be financially beneficial for Desmond. (read up on it online).
If you ever really want to “Read all about it” , as in read real news, then do not buy or read the non Scottish Daily Express as that is where truth goes to die on their pages ………..basically they are just Trolls who are trolling all of those ‘readers’ either stupid enough to buy their rag or who are those who are like minded and so who then buy their rag of a paper just to reinforce their own bias , wrong thinking and lack of rational thought.
We neither need nor want any input into our Scottish politics or upon our country from the likes of these S**** Hawks aka S*** stirrers.
Liz S
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It really is bizarre that people accept these far right wing rags in Scotland let alone buy their BritNat propaganda. Imagine if the daily rags like that one were called, ‘English’.
The English Daily Express, folks would be scratching their heads and saying eh?
I just despair.
Great comment Liz S. 🙂
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The ‘article’ by ” Paul Jeeves is the Crime Editor of the Express and has been responsible for covering many of Britain’s biggest stories including the Manchester Arena terror attack, the abduction of Shannon Matthews, the manhunt for crazed killer Raoul Moat, the murderous rampage of Cumbrian taxi-driver Derrick Bird…. ” etc., etc….” according to the Express, BUT Muckrack has a slightly different angle https://muckrack.com/paul-jeeves-1 – North of England and Arts Correspondent, Daily Express….
– The article in question is indeed attributed to him by Muckrack as at the Direly Expressed, so none of the muppet ‘editors’ in charge of the Scottish Edition are likely to issue a public apology let alone one at stupid o’clock on Twitter a la BBC Scotland’s Sarah Smith, and will instead rely on ‘all views are my own’ – the view from Leeds….
Sadly, my experience is different to your own on AI – When I searched on Google for ‘unregistered emergency carers are able to operate on a short-term basis with no regulatory oversight due to a legal anomaly might place children directly into the hands of predators‘, the crap from the article was agreed with no matter whether I added Scotland or the Scottish Daily Express, but more importantly was blocked from finding the salient article,
Your precise question yielded the result you sought, but colour me sceptical that this degree of accuracy is considered by the majority of the populace, or will indeed last….
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