Child Abuse Victims Criticise Arrangements As Inquiry Opens

By Paris Gourtsoyannis
The Times
October 1, 2015

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article4572867.ece

Paris Gourtsoyannis

Victims’ groups have criticised a public inquiry into historical child abuse that formally begins work today over fears they will be shut out of proceedings.

Charities blasted as “shambolic” the fact that arrangements to guarantee them legal representation within the inquiry have not been finalised in the ten months since it was announced.

In Care Abuse Survivors, Scotland (INCAS) says it has tried unsuccessfully to meet with the inquiry chairwoman, Susan O’Brien, QC, to discuss financial support that would allow them to be represented within the inquiry.

INCAS claimed calls for compensation to be made available in advance of the ...