SCOTLAND
STV
A group of people who were abused as children are threatening to withdraw cooperation from the public inquiry into child abuse in Scottish institutions.
The group, In Care Abuse Survivors (Incas), says repeated requests for meetings with the minister who ordered the inquiry have been turned down.
But the Scottish Government claims abuse survivors have had “unprecedented levels of access” to ministers and civil servants.
Incas spent years campaigning for before education secretary Angela Constance ordered the Historical Child Abuse Inquiry in December 2014. The group, which represents hundreds of people, who were abused in care, now says it has concerns over the way the inquiry is developing.
After a meeting with Ms Constance in May 2015, Incas says they have not been granted an audience with the minister since. The group has now accused her of treating them with “contempt and indifference.”
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