"Sinister" Scottish law puts State in place of parents

The Scottish NHS has written to parents saying that all future correspondence and medical reports about their children will be shared without their consent, with the ‘Named Person’ appointed by the State to oversee their children’s interests.

The Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill  has been described as “sinister” for introducing a  'Named Person' scheme to take effect in 2016, which it is claimed will potentially criminalise good parents and undermines the family.  

The Archbishop Cranmer blog makes the accusation and says SMPs have “effectively passed a bill which nullifies parental rights and endows the state with higher baby-sitting authority” than parents.

“Parents are rightly going to be concerned about a State-guardian taking over their natural role of nurturing their children,” says Andrea Williams, CEO of The Christian Legal Centre.  

“It is vital that parents retain their appointed role of bringing up their own children. This sort of sinister State intrusion and prying on the family is chilling and it is hard to believe that a supposedly free country would even contemplate this level of interference in family life. The creation of a ‘Named Person’ role is highly damaging to family stability as it sends a message to children that parents have lost their real authority in the home.” 

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