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The Inquiry Newsletter for spring 2021 can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this page. This new edition provides information on the continuing work of the Inquiry, with an update on the current Boarding Schools case study as well as the recent...

BOARDING SCHOOLS PHASE 2 HEARINGS - VENUE HEALTH & SAFETY Phase 2 of public hearings examining the abuse of children in boarding schools will commence on Tuesday 4 May 2021. Phase 2 will begin by hearing evidence relating to Loretto School in Musselburgh,...

BBC v The Right Honourable Lady Smith We are pleased the petition has been dismissed, leaving the Inquiry to focus solely on the critically important investigative work required by our wide terms of reference.All the orders challenged in the petition were...

COMMENCEMENT OF BOARDING SCHOOLS PHASE TWO EVIDENCE Lady Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) has announced that Phase 2 of public hearings examining the abuse of children in boarding schools will commence on 4 May 2021. Phase 2 will be...

This report was commissioned by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to consider the existence and effectiveness of the systems to protect children in care in Scotland, and to prevent the abuse of those children in the period framed by the Children Act 1948 a...

This report was commissioned by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to consider the existence and effectiveness of the systems to protect children in care in Scotland, and to prevent the abuse of those children in the period framed by the Children Act 1948 a...

This report—written by Professors Stephen Constantine (Emeritus Professor of Modern British History, Lancaster University), Marjory Harper (Professor of History, University of Aberdeen), and Gordon Lynch (Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology, Unive...

SCOTTISH CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY PUBLIC HEARINGS TO RESUME Lady Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) has today announced public hearings examining the abuse of children in Boarding Schools will commence on 16 March 2021. Phase 1 of the evid...

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has today, 17 February, published Lady Smith’s findings in relation to the provision of residential care by The Christian Brothers at St Ninian’s Residential Care Home, Falkland, Fife, between 1953 and 1983. She concludes ...

Boarding Schools hearings postponed The Inquiry’s case study hearings to examine the abuse of children in Boarding Schools were due to begin later this month. Today (6 January 2021), Lady Smith has reluctantly decided that they will have to be postponed. ...