Scottish Human Rights Commission submits poverty report to UN

"A report into poverty in Scotland and the way it blights lives has been compiled for the United Nations (UN)."

"The world body has been alerted to various aspects of inequality in the country – including the impact of welfare reform and austerity measures on human rights."

"In particular, the report focusses on how these affect women, disabled people, children and young people, pensioners on low incomes and ethnic minorities."

"The Scottish Human Rights Commission has submitted the document to the UN setting out ways in which poverty means people in Scotland’s economic, social and cultural rights are not being met."

"It has been compiled as part of a review taking place in Geneva, by the UN Committee for the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)."

"With new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament, the commission will be sharpening its focus on ensuring our governments and public authorities meet their human rights obligations."

"The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will publish its findings on Scotland and the UK’s implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in July."


Read more at http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/un-to-investigate-poverty-in-scotland?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Oktopost-facebook-profile&utm_campaign=Oktopost-2016-06+General+Campaign#6EBUhWXcMToOgQRH.99

Liberia is seeking to outsource its primary school system

"Despite a long-standing public commitment to free education, Liberia recently made the controversial announcement that it is seeking to outsource its entire primary school system to a private provider."

"Education Minister of Liberia, George Werner, is planning an unprecedented public-private partnership (PPP) with US company Bridge International Academies (BIA). On the table is a five year contract worth 65 million to manage the country’s pre-primary and primary education system. If the partnership is pursued public funding will pay for BIA’s services and parents will have to fund 5 - 7 $ per term per child, excluding meals. This cost was found to be closer to 12$ to 20$ per child, entirely unaffordable for most poor households in Kenya and Uganda where BIA currently operates 400 nursery and primary schools."

"Bridge Academies delivers a highly structured, technologically driven model of education in which teachers deliver lessons from scripts on tablets. BIA asserts its approach offers students access to quality education they would otherwise not have, self-reporting significant gains in reading and maths attainment among their pupils. A one year pilot programme will be introduced in 70 Liberian schools come September 2016 before the half decade deal is struck. The pilot, not funded by the Liberian government, will be evaluated by an independent study after which the partnership may be discontinued."

"Bridge International Academies is ambitious, seeking to reach 10 million children in the coming decade. Powerful backers support their efforts including Bill Gates, the UKs Department for International Development (DfID), Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the World Bank, which wired the company 10 million dollars. This support was starkly criticized by civil society organisations across Kenya and Uganda, who have since cautioned Liberia not to sell what should be a public good. Likewise, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, characterised the decision to relinquish responsibility of public education to a commercially driven organisation as a `gross violation of the right to education` which undermines Liberia’s commitment to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to free education. "

http://thefuturescentre.org/signals-of-change/7398/unprecedented-liberia-outsource-primary-education-system

A bit of doublespeak from the UN there.

See also http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/public-private-partnerships.html

Think global, act local

"`Think global, act local’ is a world-famous slogan that has been attributed to Sir Patrick Geddes, the Scottish biologist who was also an innovative thinker in urban planning and education. The words are part of a legacy which has influenced education for global citizenship today." So said Michael Russell MSP in Developing global citizens within Curriculum for Excellence.

`Think global, act local` is how the United Nations Agenda 21 is being implemented across the world. (updated to Agenda 2030)

It might be wondered why Mr Russell would insist that it was "vital to remember that global citizenship is not an add-on to Curriculum for Excellence, it is central to it."

https://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/Images/DevelopingGlobalCitizens_tcm4-628187.pdf

 

But if the plan is to break down nation states, which it is, manipulating children`s loyalties so that they look beyond the old world order would be a priority, just as it would be of utmost importance to push parents out of the way.

 

Children and young people must worry about climate change, poverty, gender, carbon footprints and loss of species. They must welcome diversity while being pressured more and more to have the same outlook as each other, guided by `health and wellbeing` experts, of course.

 

There is another preoccupation: resilience.

"Dr. Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, shares her thoughts on the need for enhanced resilience in order to better manage unpredictable shocks." It looks like resilience is another form of collaborative, and there lies a rocky road ahead to be supervised by the globalists.

She goes on to say that the forum she is promoting is for the "sharing of ideas, the exploring of linkages and the breaking down of silos."

Breaking down silos and forming linkages is something that Scotland knows a lot about, especially in the field of Children`s integrated services; but breaking down silos goes even beyond that.

"In April 2014, Glasgow was named as one of the first 32 members of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) Network (a $100million initiative). Glasgow's membership in the network represents a major step towards creating a strategic, multi-agency approach in proactively managing the inevitable challenges, shocks and stresses the city faces..."

"In September 2014, Alastair Brown was appointed as Chief Resilience Officer to lead on Glasgow's resilience efforts. The resilient Glasgow strategy is being directed in collaboration with the people of Glasgow including our residents, businesses and pubic sector partners." [So they say.]

Linkedin list some of his skills as climate change, energy efficiency, sustainability and carbon management.

https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=17668

As Martin Edwards has commented in his April article: "Silo-busting is a global initiative promoted by the United Nations Development Group and its UK shill Julia Middleton, CEO Common Purpose."

Silo busting reaches across national boundaries and some of the strategies are outlined on the 100 RC website where we are informed that "Cities in the ...network are provided with the resources necessary to develop a roadmap to resilience along four main pathways:"

"Financial and logistical guidance for establishing an innovative new position in city government, a Chief Resilience Officer, who will lead the city’s resilience efforts;"
 

"Expert support for development of a robust resilience strategy;"

 

"Access to solutions, service providers, and partners from the private, public and NGO sectors who can help them develop and implement their resilience strategies and,"

 

"Membership of a global network of member cities who can learn from and help each other."

Their solutions, their providers, their partners and their global networks.

http://www.100resilientcities.org/about-us#/-_/ 

Read Martin Edward`s detailed article about the global parliament of mayors and other mechanisms to take cities out of democratic control. 

http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/global-parliament-mayors-and-abolition-electorate

The roots of CSE

It`s already in Scotland as part of Health and Wellbeing:

There is a long list of people and organisations at the end of the Joining the dots document who were part of the discussions about GIRFEC. Cathy McCulloch and Dr Colin Morrison, co-directors of the Scottish Children`s Parliament are there, as expected.

What is less well known is that Cathy McCulloch and Dr Colin Morrison are partners of TASC (Scotland) Ltd, founded by them in 1992.

This is what they say about TASC:

"TASC provides a range of services including social research and service evaluation. We have a real interest in people - how they experience their lives and what their hopes, dreams and ambitions are for their families and communities. We work with policy makers and service providers to help ensure the needs and interests of service users are recognised and met."

Some of their work has included:

"Learning Together: A Review of sex and relationship education resources for parents and carers NHS Health Scotland (2009-10)"

"An evaluation of Feel Think Do Sexual Abuse Prevention Programme (2009) for NHS Forth Valley. Feel Think Do is a sexual abuse prevention programme for P6 pupils. It is designed to be delivered over 8 sessions and uses a DVD of dramatised scenarios. Children can also work on their own learning logs."

"Parental Feedback on School-based Sexual Health and Relationships Education in Glasgow for Glasgow City Council and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Young People’s Sexual Health Steering Group (2011)."

Chapter 1 for under 5s

http://www.tascagency.co.uk/parents-and-carers.html

In Scotland, CSE tends to be called Sexual Health and Relationships Education. It starts early and never stops all through the school years. Because `health and wellbeing` is spread throughout Curriculum for Excellence, it is impossible for parents to disengage their children from Sexual Health and Relationships Education entirely. All very cunningly planned. No-one in the role of Named Person has ever said some of this might not be appropriate for very young children.

At the heart of GIRFEC are little businesses working in partnership with government which provide `services` to children and families to address `problems` that never used to exist. I`m sure they`ll dream up a few more.