SCOTLAND
BBC Scotland

By Reevel Alderson
BBC Scotland’s social affairs correspondent

Legal action is being threatened to force the government to widen the remit of the inquiry into historical allegations of child abuse in Scotland.

Survivors group White Flowers Alba said it was seeking a judicial review because the inquiry will not look at their cases.

It claimed this was “unfair” as similar investigations elsewhere in the UK were looking at all instances of abuse.

The Scottish government said the inquiry must focus on a set time frame.

The public inquiry was ordered in December last year and followed allegations which emerged in a BBC Scotland investigation of institutional abuse at a former Catholic boarding school at Fort Augustus in the Highlands.