SCOTLAND
BBC News
A Scottish government minister has defended its inquiry into child abuse after survivors’ groups called for its remit to be extended.
Campaigners have claimed institutions such as the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts could be “let off the hook”.
But Education Secretary Angela Constance said the scope of the inquiry was “very far reaching”.
And she said religious organisations were covered when they had looked after children in a residential capacity.
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has been tasked with “raising public awareness of the abuse of children in care, providing an opportunity for public acknowledgement of the suffering of those children and a forum for validation of their experience and testimony.”
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