That the Parliament welcomes the decision by the City of Edinburgh Council to rectify what it understands are serious safeguarding concerns about the way that data is collected in its schools for research; believes that this was highlighted by parent council groups following the health and wellbeing census that was carried out across 16 of Scotland’s local authorities in 2021-22; understands that issues were first raised by a parent council and escalated through councillors and MSPs to the council education team; believes that the concerns included a lack of transparency, ineffective pseudonymisation, unconsented data sharing and the ability for children to participate without parent awareness; notes that issues were raised about how this data was then stored and used, with interventions and recommendations issued by the Information Commissioner's Office and the Office for Statistics Regulation; highlights that the outcome of this decision is that all future data collected in Edinburgh local authority schools going forward will require researchers to obtain opt-in consent from parents and carers for their proposed research, and urges all of Scotland's local authority education departments to adopt a similar child-centred safeguarding approach to education research and data collection.