SCOTLAND
Daily Record
Nov 02, 2014 By Marion Scott
Investigators have been told that the documents which run in to the hundreds are no longer available.
Government files containing claims of abuse of some of Scotland’s most vulnerable children have disappeared from national archives.
The secret papers contain allegations of physical and sexual abuse in homes and residential schools over four decades.
Some of the papers prepared by a task force set up by the-then Secretary of State for Scotland Bruce Millan in the late 1960s were seen by Sunday Mail in 2002.
But the vast majority of the papers, relating to abuse claims from the 1930s to 1960s, have never been made public. …
Campaigner David Whelan, 55, a member of the joint government and survivors think tank, the National Confidential Forum for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, said: “Those missing files weren’t where they should have been. They need to be found.”
He says the papers may have included claims about serial abuser Jimmy Savile, a regular visitor to Fort Augustus Abbey School in Inverness-shire.
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