Lady Smith: Last News

The true scale of alleged child abuse in local authority foster care may never be revealed due to historic issues with record keeping, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard.

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will focus on Edinburgh Academy when it resumes public hearings on boarding schools in late summer.

Scots boarding schools were repeatedly abused by "sadistic monks," an inquiry has ruled. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry looked into Carlekemp Priory School in North Berwick, East Lothian and Fort Augustus Abbey School in Inverness-shire.They were both run by the Benedictine monks of Fort Augustus Abbey between 1948 and 1991.It was found that children at the schools suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse, with some monks being "serial sexual predators" who targeted children at both schools.The inquiry is being chaired by Lady Smith, who published her fifth case study finding, detailing that: "Children were sexually abused at both schools.

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has published judge Lady Smith’s findings into care provided by the Christian Brothers at St Ninian’s Residential Care Home in Falkland, Fife, between 1953 and 1983.She said that not only were children exposed to risks of sexual, physical and psychological danger, but those risks also became a reality.Lady Smith, who chaired the inquiry, said: “The overall view I formed of St Ninian’s was depressing."The brothers who were perpetrators of abuse could pursue their abusive practices with impunity.“They had unrestrained access to the vulnerable children they wished to target."That such abuse was possible for virtually the entirety of St Ninian’s existence represents serious failures in oversight, management and

A former residential school in Paisley will be investigated as part of the ongoing Scottish Child Abuse inquiry.