No to Named Persons

Holyrood is very keen to give each child a spy

Who’d be there from time of birth as childhood years pass by,

Listening to idle talk and making endless notes

Recording every thoughtless word a hapless infant quotes.           

Reporting things they do not like within the children’s homes

So that after eighteen years their files may run to tomes.

Taking if they feel that something is not right,

Even though it may be wrong just purely in their sight,

For many taking up the job may well be rather strange,

But with a liking to control all those within their range.

But it is obvious how this scheme would harm all children’s lives,

Destroying all the privacy on which each family thrives.

Parents will be frightened to speak freely in the home,

In fear of any thoughtless word which from their mouth might roam.

For though each family’s different in their approach and ways

Most children can look back in joy upon their childhood days,

Where there was security in an atmosphere of trust,

Which if this scheme is introduced will quickly turn to dust.

Of course some children are abused and help should be at hand,

But not by such intrusion in all households in the land.