Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Swinney updated MSPs on Wednesday (Fraser Bremner/PA) (PA Wire) Scotland’s redress scheme for victims of abuse in care has ...

THE exclusion of abuse survivors from a Scottish government compensation scheme is unjustified, a Holyrood committee concluded today. More than 200 women, former residents at Fornethy House school in ...

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Scotland’s Redress Scheme was set up to right the historical wrongs perpetrated against victims of child abuse. MSPs passed a law which would ensure survivors of historical child abuse in care would ...

A retired judge in charge of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has earned almost £2.5million – while survivors receive an average payout of £52,000. Lady Smith was made chair of the SCAI in July 2016, ...