Scotland’s Education Minister told to rethink SNP state guardian plan on first full day in new job

May 20, 2016 by

By Simon Johnson, Telegraph:

John Swinney has been urged on his first full day as Scotland’s Education Minister to start listening to the concerns of parents, teachers, health workers and police about the SNP’s plan to assign every child a state guardian.

The Scottish Conservatives, Holyrood’s new main opposition party, said they would continue to lobby for the controversial Named Person scheme to be scrapped.

But, with a majority of MSPs appearing to support it in principle, they argued that Mr Swinney should also reconsider how it works in practice when it is fully rolled out across Scotland in August this year.

Liz Smith, the party’s newly appointed Shadow Education Minister, warned the policy is currently “unworkable” and argued the SNP can no longer dismiss criticism as scaremongering.

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