Scottish pupils 'sex survey' data advertised

[ArabellaScott]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvr65dpgzo

'Data from a controversial survey which asked school pupils as young as 14 about their sexual experiences has been advertised for use by external researchers, without the explicit consent of children or parents, BBC Scotland has learned.
The Scottish government's Health and Wellbeing census hit the headlines in 2021 after asking highly personal questions of more than 130,000 school children, raising concerns among education experts and families.
Parents said they were not told the nature of the questions in advance and were not asked to agree that their children's private information could be shared.'

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'However, the data is now being offered publicly to external researchers via the website of Research Data Scotland, a charity created by the Scottish government in 2021 with a stated aim of making it easier to access data around health and wellbeing.

I am nasty/mean add in a FOI to see if it was on anyones agenda and what the outcome was.🤷‍♀️

Thanks for all the legal, safeguarding and GDPR information and explanations.

I'd like to summarise this questionnaire very crudely.

If one child asks:

"So miss, do you like anal?"

And the teacher, naturally, is outraged and orders Jenny / Johnny out, what defence do they have when thd kid says:

"Why am I in trouble? You've asked me that and told me to write the answer down."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ym82nd81o

Good news! Should never have happened and a massive failure of care to children who have / are being sexually abused, but when did the Scottish government care about them?

I'm really not happy about that statement from jenny gilruth. It sounds as though she's looking for a way to keep gathering the data only without parental outcry or atleast without parents ability to stop them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6467p17jjo

'A review of a controversial school sex survey which was first requested almost three years ago is to be published in the next month, the Scottish government has said.

It comes after the boss of the UK's Office of Statistics Regulation (OSR) wrote to them demanding that the long-awaited review be published within 30 days.

The Scottish government's Health and Wellbeing census first hit the headlines in 2021 after asking pupils as young as 14 about their sexual experiences.
The OSR wrote to the Scottish government in 2022 warning that they had "underestimated the significance" the survey would have for parents and calling for a review of how the questions were designed and the way it was tested.

In a strongly-worded letter seen by BBC Scotland News, the director of the OSR, Ed Humpherson, has now demanded that the government publish the review within 30 days.'
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'In response, the Scottish government said it would publish the review within the 30-day deadline.
It also said the chief statistician for Scotland - Alastair McAlpine - would reply to Mr Humpherson's letter shortly.'

Director of Connect:

'"If the parents that initially raised this issue were listened to at the time then these matters could have been properly dealt with years ago."

<cough cough>

Update: theyve deleted all data and won"t do it again. How much money was pissed down the drain this time, because they won"t listen when people raise concerns?

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25876255.scottish-school-sex-survey-data-deleted-government/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3097zj50lyo

Another pound for the 'terfs were right' jar.

It’s hard to understand how the people who make the laws, the people who are actually responsible for it all, can repeatedly get it so wrong. It’s their bread and butter. Basic stuff.

That must be one hell of a big jar by now. I’d love to splurge it all on one big Terven holiday so I can meet you all (before we all move in together on that Amazonian island) but I guess we’d better hand it over to ongoing worthy cases.

Sure there's room for a Terffest.

There’s a bit of a pattern here with Scotgov. They won’t “take lessons” from anyone. Fucking disgrace.

I withdrew my kids from the survey.

Politics is combative, but the SNP have fallen into the trap of Us and Them black and white thinking. Evidenced by their rigid authoritatian insistence on party policy.

Makes for brittle and defensive government and shit legislation.

How many times do mothers get called bigots and then it turns out that…

actually, man filming himself wanking at work in a gimp suit isn’t suitable for a children’s charity

a male guide leader who poses in women’s underwear and with weapons should in fact be asked to leave

a survey which asks children inappropriate questions needs deleting?

Show your kids this article? They must be old enough to discuss it now and to see you were right!

Inconvenient pearl clutching mothers are just Karens always banging on about safeguarding.