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The Scottish Conservatives will seek to have the named person scheme overturned.

 

Local Tory candidate Ranald Fraser said the law is "one of the most needless, pernicious and nosey-parker pieces of legislation to come out of Holyrood."

 

He added: "Though at the outset probably well intentioned it seeks to use state snooping as a tool to address a minority problem by compromising the majority. It says that all parents must be watched, every item of family trivia recorded and subjective judgements made on 'wellbeing' and 'happiness' however they can be judged."

 

Mr Fraser said: It seeks in most cases to make the named person a school teacher, and who says they are qualified in any way to 'listen, advise and help' in family matters. If I was a teacher, I would be worried.

 

"With responsibility comes liability and how long before a teacher is sued for failing to spot something amiss?

Conservative candidate will fight to overturn 'named persons' law

 

29 April 2016  

"This threat will lead them to record every small detail no matter how trivial and pretty soon suspicion and imagination take hold."

 

The candidate said the "really sinister aspect of this legislation is the de facto categorisation of all children as 'vulnerable' or 'at risk' and suffering from lack of 'wellbeing.'

 

"It seeks to place the state over the parents and you're guilty until proven innocent. Instead of reacting to a problem when it occurs every child is now regarded as a problem in the making.

 

"As a conservative I believe in personal freedom and responsibility and see this law as being a blatant act of state sponsored snooping and control freakery. Or are we the new Cuba?"