Edinburgh Academy to be focus of Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry when it resumes this summer

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The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will focus on Edinburgh Academy when it resumes public hearings on boarding schools in late summer.The inquiry has been investigating residential care provisions at boarding schools for a number of years and has looked at schools including Fettes College in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Academy will be its focus from August.BBC presenter Nicky Campbell has said he was abused while at the school and the inquiry team has urged others to get in touch.Inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith said: “Since the beginning of public hearings examining boarding schools in March 2021, there has been an increase in applicants coming forward, including those who boarded at Edinburgh Academy and other witnesses.

Their evidence includes information about Edinburgh Academy and allegations of abuse by a number of its former staff.“It is normal for applicants to come forward during and after evidential hearings.

Those hearings and the publicity surrounding them encourage them to get in touch. In these particular circumstances, I have decided further evidence about the care of children who boarded at the Edinburgh Academy should be heard in public hearings, as part of the boarding schools case study.“Evidence relating to Edinburgh Academy has been gathered for some time.