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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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, ...

A survivor of Fornethy 'House of Horrors' has repeated pleas for victims to be given access to the redress scheme after they were snubbed due to their abuse "not being prolonged". Lynne Sheerin, who ...