SCOTLAND
Daily Record
BY PAUL WARD
SUSAN O’Brien QC says investigation will address seven decades of abuse of children in faith-based organisations, children’s homes, foster care, long-term hospital care and boarding schools.
THE inquiry into the abuse of children in care is not just to provide answers for survivors but to protect “some Scottish children yet to be born”, its chair said as she launched a call for evidence.
Susan O’Brien QC described the scale of the inquiry as “huge” as it aims to look over seven decades of abuse of children in faith-based organisations, children’s homes, foster care, long-term hospital care and boarding schools.
Some elderly and ill witnesses have started giving evidence to the inquiry team but a formal call for evidence was launched in Glasgow on Wednesday.
Those who wish to provide evidence are being asked to make contact by email, post or through a dedicated freephone number – 0800 0929 300 – from March 29.
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