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Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry: Victim tells of foster mother’s cruelty and lies

A former soldier’s head and hands were held down on a hot cooker and he was lied to about his real family, an inquiry has heard. Stewart Wilson was one of thousands of vulnerable children sent to remote places in Scotland as part of a child care ...

05 Jul 2022 at 19:14

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Woman tells inquiry of horrific abuse at Edinburgh foster home

A woman who was repeatedly sexually abused has told an inquiry she was beaten with a broom handle after telling the very people who were meant to protect her. Shirley Caffell, who has waived her right to anonymity, told the Scottish Child Abuse ...

15 Jun 2022 at 14:39

Child migration a ‘shameful chapter’ in country’s history, inquiry finds

Child migration from Scotland was a “shameful chapter” in the UK’s history which saw children physically, sexually and emotionally abused, an inquiry has found. Children endured the “demolition of their pre-existing selves” when they arrived ...

21 Mar 2023 at 13:28

Violence was allowed to prevail at military boarding school, inquiry concludes

Pupils attending a military boarding school decades ago were subjected to “dreadful abuse” in an environment where “violence was allowed to prevail”, the chairwoman of an inquiry has found. Lady Smith, who chairs the Scottish Child Abuse ...

22 Oct 2024 at 16:20

Former foster child tells inquiry of being beaten with a belt until he bled

Scotland

Foster child tells inquiry of being beaten until he bled

A former foster child has spoken of his ordeal at the hands of carers as he told an inquiry he was beaten with a belt until he bled. Christopher Scott spent time in foster homes in Scotland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the ...

10 Aug 2022 at 17:32

Child abuse inquiry calls for witnesses ahead of hospital residential care phase

The child abuse inquiry has called on people with experience of under-18s residential care in Scottish hospitals to “get in touch” ahead of the next phase of the investigation. The ninth phase of the Scottish Child Abuse ...

29 Aug 2024 at 14:54

Scotland

Swinney says Government unable to intervene in who chairs child abuse inquiry

The Government has “no locus” to intervene in who chairs the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, John Swinney has said after a group of survivors called for Lady Smith to step down. In a letter to the First Minister, 28 ...

27 Nov 2024 at 13:08

Pupils at Loretto boarding school suffered abuse, inquiry concludes

Children who boarded at Loretto School were exposed to risks of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, an inquiry has found. Loretto, in Musselburgh, East Lothian, is one of a number of boarding schools ...

19 Apr 2023 at 12:00

Previous governments failed to halt ‘abusive’ child migration, inquiry finds

UK governments must bear the majority of the blame for failing to halt “abusive” child migration schemes, an inquiry has found. Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith has published her ...

28 Sept 2023 at 15:18

Psychiatrist thought he could ‘cure’ alleged abuser, inquiry hears

An accused former teacher was supported in a bid to adopt a child by a psychiatrist who believed he could “cure him” – and intervened to stop him being sacked from Fettes College over abuse ...

23 Aug 2023 at 10:47

Evidence on abuse in young offender institutions ‘harrowing’, inquiry told

Hearing evidence of the historical abuse of children and young people while in the care of the Scottish Prison Service has been “harrowing and distressing”, its boss has told an inquiry. ...

15 Dec 2023 at 12:48

Ninth phase of Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to open next spring

The ninth phase of hearings in the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) is set to open in the spring with an investigation of residential care for children and young people with ...

18 Dec 2024 at 15:49

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