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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Scottish child abuse inquiry - Caught on Camera

Pupils ‘wholly failed’ by Fettes College during decades of abuse, inquiry finds

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry found children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused from the 1950s onwards at the Edinburgh school.

Evening Standard

Labour MP voted down grooming gang probe – before demanding Scottish inquiry

A SCOTTISH Labour MP voted down calls for a national inquiry into grooming gangs – before demanding a Scottish probe when her party U-turned on…

The National (Scotland)

Ex-junior counsel to child abuse inquiry charged with sex offences

A FORMER junior counsel to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has been charged with sex offences.

The National (Scotland)

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Fostered children were abused throughout Scotland over 84 years, inquiry told

Public hearings for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry foster care case study concluded on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Edinburgh man wants to end own life with assisted suicide amid mental health struggle

Kevin Sutherland has struggled with mental health issues and a history of abuse as a child, saying that his life is 'unbearable' and that he has already begun the process to die by euthanasia in Belgium

Edinburgh Live

Young Scots man wants to end life at assisted dying clinic amid mental health struggle

Kevin Sutherland was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) nine years ago and said it has made life “unbearable”.

Daily Record

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

Stewart Wilson said he was physically abused and told lies about his real family.

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Edinburgh council 'sorry' after grandmother 'beaten with broom handle' at care home

Shirley Caffell, who has waived her right to anonymity, told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry of the years of neglect she suffered when she was put into a Portobello foster home between June 1965 and March 1968

Edinburgh Live

Six-figure legal settlement for man abused by teacher when he was 12

John Findlay took legal action against Aberlour House School, which has now merged with Gordonstoun.

The Independent UK

Scale of child abuse in Scots foster care system may never be known due to ‘poor record keeping’

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard there were very few recorded cases of abuse of young people in foster care because there is no “specific code” within the case management system used to record crimes.

Daily Record

Councils ‘did not keep up-to-date records of children in foster care’

The foster care case study of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry began today and heard opening submissions from 14 local authorities in Scotland.

The Independent UK

Child abuse inquiry to begin foster care hearings in May

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry said that the foster care case study will run for several months.

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