SCOTLAND
Daily Record
26 JULY 2015
BY ANNIE BROWN
THE victims were physically and sexually absued in local authority schools and childrens’ homes.
Scottish councils have paid out more than £1.5 million in compensation to child abuse victims in the last decade.
The victims were physically and sexually absued in local authority schools and childrens’ homes.
Dumfries and Galloway alone paid out £1 million to 50 victims at the Merkland Childrens’ Homes in Moffat.
Glasgow City made nine payments, between April 2008 and October last year, worth a total of £85,350 to victims including those from Kerelaw School, in Stevenston, North Ayrshire.
A former art teacher Matthew George from the secure unit was jailed for 10 years for physical and sexual assault.
The figures obtained under a Freedom of Information request by the Scotland on Sunday, show that Fife Council paid out £369,000 between October 2005 and December 2008.
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