Your coverage of the Supreme Court’s judgement on the named person service (‘Court ruling sparks delay to Named Persons roll-out’) contains a number of inaccuracies which require correction.

Firstly, there is no such thing as a ‘Named Person Act’. The named person service is one part of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 which was passed with cross-party support and not a single vote against, by 103 votes to zero, in the Scottish Parliament.

Secondly, the leaflet you mention was produced by a third party to provide information about the named person service to adults and children with learning difficulties.

Due to deliberate misrepresentation of this material, the leaflet was withdrawn.

The assertion that “someone other than a child’s parents” could decide the “best environment for a child to live in, and what programmes are suitable for them to watch” would be laughable if it wasn’t so dangerously wrong.

Clearly, parents are, with very few exceptions, the best people to raise their children. Nothing in the legislation changes parental rights and responsibilities.

Your article goes on to assert as fact that a named person could be “a teacher, health visitor or social worker”. We have been clear that a social worker will never be a child’s named person. Once again, this is an example of the misrepresentation of the service and could have easily been fact-checked ahead of publication.

The Supreme Court’s ruling requires us to provide greater clarity about the basis on which health visitors, teachers and other professionals supporting families will share and receive information in their named person role. We are taking forward that work as a matter of urgency.

It also made clear that the principle of providing a named person to support children and families does not breach human rights.

The Scottish Government is committed to getting it right for every child and ensuring families have the right support when they need it.

I hope in any future coverage of the named person service, your newspaper will take greater care to ensure that the facts are reported, rather than the misrepresentations that have been propagated.

Mark McDonald,

Minister for Childcare and Early Years

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As regards the "Named Persons" issues raised in your letters page recently.

First, the Supreme Court only examines points of law. It is not a criminal court or required to produce a verdict on anyone's innocence or guilt.

Second, one of your correspondents claimed he supported the Christian Institute and this was "a historic victory for a family".

Many Christians go big on the sanctity of the family. I don't know why because that is complete and utter religious propaganda.

In the Gospels Jesus offers violence on two occasions. Once, against the money changers in the temple and against the family. Jesus is no lover or friend of families.

I quote: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life he cannot be my disciple." Luke, 14,16. See also, Luke, 12,51 and Matthew, 10,35.

Jesus believed the family was an ungodly cesspool of evil and corruption.

James Graham,

via email

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Veganism is becoming increasingly popular, with more than 500,000 people having gone vegan in the UK according to a recent poll.

Yet despite this growing popularity, most supermarkets fail to label food that is suitable for vegans, forcing us to laboriously check ingredient lists to find out which products are suitable.

That is why Animal Aid has launched the ‘Mark It Vegan' campaign, calling on all supermarkets that don't already do so to label their vegan-friendly own-brand products in much the same way that they already do for vegetarian goods.

In just one week 5,000 people have signed our online petition and support continues to grow.

If there are any readers who would also like to see all vegan food suitably labelled in supermarkets, they can sign the petition at www.animalaid.org.uk/go/markitvegan or they can request campaign postcards to send to each supermarket by calling 01732 364546 ext 223.

Ben Martin,

Animal Aid