SCOTLAND
Scotsman
by GARETH ROSE
Updated on the 11 February 2014
SPECIALISED teams of police, lawyers and childcare experts should be created to investigate historic abuse, a report has suggested.
The Scottish Government should also review time-bar laws so that alleged victims can launch compensation cases, regardless of when offences are said to have happened.
And a National Survivor Support Fund could be created to help victims, a draft action plan proposes.
The suggestions follow “InterAction” meetings involving survivors of abuse in care, as well government, institutions and others, delivered by the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland.
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