Author Archives
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Maggie Mellon Speaking @ NO2NP Roadshow – Inverness:
Independent Social Services Consultant Maggie Mellon explains her problems with the Named Person scheme to an audience at a roadshow event in Inverness, 1st October 2014.
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HMP Inverclyde women’s prison: invest in community projects to prevent offending
Maggie Mellon sums up the argument against the Scottish Prison Service’s proposal for substantial capital investment in a new women’s prison at HMP Inverclyde to replace HMP Cornton Vale. This is a version of a letter recently sent to the… Read More ›
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Evidence to The Isle of Man Social Affairs Committee
Procedural The Acting Chairman (Mr Speaker): Good afternoon everyone. Can I welcome everyone to this meeting of the Social Affairs Policy Review Committee. We are taking evidence in public this afternoon and can I ask as a matter of… Read More ›
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How the State makes a Bad Parent
Open letter to the Scottish `Parliament. This is an article I have written about the childrens hearings and why they need to be reviewed. It will be of interest to any parent who has had to attend a hearing. Sentence… Read More ›
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The ‘Named Person’ debate: The case against – Maggie Mellon
Keywords Named Person, Getting It Right For Every Child, Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, parents. Corresponding author: Maggie Mellon,Independent consultant on social work practice and public policy. My four main reasons for opposing the Named Person Firstly, there… Read More ›
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Protect the human: Don’t stunt love
Maggie Mellon asks why we have children and what makes a parent. Drawing on her own experience of motherhood, she suggests what the national parenting strategy should do.
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Debate with Jackie Brock of Children in Scotland
why we are in danger of creating a surveillance and not a support system for children and famiies? Debate Thanks to Jackie and Children in Scotland for organising the debate. The idea came out from a workshop proposal that I… Read More ›
