The 'named person': surveillance and the wellbeing of children and young people in Scotland.

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Eric Stoddart

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The Scottish Parliament’s ‘Children and Young People’ Bill has extended statutory responsibilities for the welfare of children to include their well-being. This article focuses on the ‘named person’ service, arguing that an attenuated understanding of surveillance by politicians and other stakeholders has contributed to a failure to adequately consider the social control dimensions of this new universal provision.

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Eric Stoddart, University of St Andrews, UK

Lecturer in Practical Theology, School of Divinity

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