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28 November 2015

Child abuse survivors: Holyrood is now complicit in the cover-up

SURVIVORS have accused the Scottish Government of “becoming complicit in the cover-up of abuse” as a row over the remit of the inquiry into the historical child abuse intensifies.
In an angry email to Education Secretary Angela Constance, Alan Draper, parliamentary liaison officer for In Care Abuse Survivors, claimed many institutions would escape public scrutiny if the Government did not include non-residential settings such as church parishes, schools and children’s and youth organisations within the inquiry’s scope.

 http://www.thenational.scot/news/child-abuse-survivors-holyrood-is-now-complicit-in-the-cover-up.10394