Scotland’s named person scheme has sparked widespread outrage after it emerged that parents will be reported to the state for trivial family incidents, including forgetting their children’s hospital appointments. Although the scheme is not set to be fully implemented until August 2016, the Scottish Parliament guidance is now being used by the NHS to justify sharing data on children with head teachers. The health board seems to be acting in advance of the law being implemented. Aidan O’Neill QC said the plans appear to be ‘predicated on the idea that the proper primary relationship that children will have for their well-being and development, nurturing and education is with the State rather than within their families and with their parents’. Director of The Christian Institute, Colin Hart, said, ‘The state seems intent on usurping the role of parents and reducing them to helpless spectators in the lives of their children.’