{"id":175474,"date":"2023-05-15T01:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T01:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=175474"},"modified":"2023-05-15T01:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T01:04:54","slug":"generation-of-young-people-failed-by-sturgeon-during-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/generation-of-young-people-failed-by-sturgeon-during-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation of young people &apos;failed by Sturgeon&apos; during leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A generation of young people was &#8216;absolutely failed by Sturgeon&#8217; during her time as Scottish First Minister, Children&#8217;s Commissioner says<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Bruce Adamson said people are no better off than when his tenure began in 2017<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Read more:\u00a0Humza Yousaf &#8216;ties himself in knots over Nicola Sturgeon&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nicola Sturgeon &#8216;absolutely&#8217; failed young people during her time as First Minister, the Children&#8217;s Commissioner has said.<\/p>\n<p>In a &#8216;devastatingly brutal&#8217; assessment of her record in office, Bruce Adamson laid bare a litany of &#8216;real failures&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents also said that the former SNP leader has &#8216;failed a generation of Scottish children&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing commissioner Mr Adamson said that children are no better off than when his six-year tenure began in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>There were &#8216;real questions&#8217;, he said, around why promises made by Ms Sturgeon&#8217;s government to tackle inequality and close the attainment gap between pupils from affluent and deprived areas had not been kept.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/15\/01\/70986303-0-image-a-14_1684108941160.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon arrives in the lobby of the Scottish Parliament<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/15\/01\/70986403-12083527-image-a-16_1684109096919.jpg\" height=\"469\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People&#8217;s Commissioner Scotland, appears before the Equalities and Human Rights Committee<\/p>\n<p>He added he has &#8216;not seen anything&#8217; to suggest the new First Minister Humza Yousaf will improve Scots children&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Sturgeon stated she wanted to be judged on her record of eradicating the gulf in attainment between the richest and poorest pupils.<\/p>\n<p>She said it was her &#8216;defining mission&#8217; and promised to close it &#8216;completely&#8217; by 2026. But the Scottish Government&#8217;s own figures revealed the gap was growing before she stepped down. Asked yesterday if he thought Ms Sturgeon had failed, Mr Adamson said: &#8216;Absolutely.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Asked by the BBC if children were better off now than when his tenure began, he replied: &#8216;No, they&#8217;re not. We need to do a lot better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;We have to focus on the children&#8217;s right to all of the things they need to thrive. So things like an adequate standard of living: do all children in Scotland have a safe warm home, good nutritious food, the right clothes to wear? Do they have access to the highest attainable standard of health, including mental health?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are really big questions around that and education, which develops you to your fullest potential.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When the Government&#8217;s making decisions around things like funding \u2013 and we&#8217;ve had discussions about things like free school meals, we&#8217;ve had discussions around mental health counselling in schools \u2013 there&#8217;s some real failures there.&#8217; The latest figures on attainment show the gulf between S3 pupils from the wealthiest and most deprived backgrounds has grown from 12.2 per cent in 2018-19 to 14.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Adamson was also scathing about Mr Yousaf&#8217;s opposition to universal free school meals in favour of a more targeted approach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/15\/01\/70986319-12083527-First_Minister_of_Scotland_Humza_Yousaf_in_the_main_chamber_duri-m-6_1684110288162.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf in the main chamber during First Minster&#8217;s Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said: &#8216;Making it universal is a really powerful way of ensuring that all children can come and there&#8217;s no stigma about who&#8217;s getting it and who&#8217;s not, who&#8217;s paying for it and who&#8217;s not, and we ensure that all children get that one good nutritious meal a day that we know is so essential.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The fact we&#8217;ve got children in Scotland going hungry at the moment is hugely concerning.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;The new First Minister made some big promises before becoming First Minister, but we&#8217;ve not seen anything on delivering those and I&#8217;m really disappointed he didn&#8217;t mention children&#8217;s rights in his big vision for Scotland statement to parliament.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;year and a half of prevarication and delay&#8217; from the Scottish Government about incorporating the UN&#8217;s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots Law was also condemned by Mr Adamson.<\/p>\n<p>Tory children and young people spokesman Meghan Gallacher said: &#8216;It&#8217;s clear from the commissioner&#8217;s testimony Nicola Sturgeon has failed a generation of Scottish children. This was a devastatingly brutal assessment.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Labour MSP Martin Whitfield, a former teacher, said: &#8216;Humza Yousaf needs to stop patting his broken party on the back and start working to improve the lives of young people.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said: &#8216;The new First Minister must completely reboot the SNP&#8217;s agenda and acknowledge that from the age of criminal responsibility to the attainment gap, his party has comprehensively failed children and young people.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A Scottish Government spokesman said ministers are &#8216;committed to making Scotland the best place in the world to grow up&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman added: &#8216;The UNCRC Bill is a critical piece of legislation that will help respect, protect and fulfil children&#8217;s rights and ministers are determined to bring the Bill back to parliament for reconsideration as soon as practicable.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12083527\/A-generation-young-people-failed-Sturgeon-time-Scottish-Minister.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A generation of young people was &#8216;absolutely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Generation of young people &amp;apos;failed by Sturgeon&amp;apos; 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