SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Victims of historic child abuse are to demand answers about the independence of a public inquiry into the problem, at a showdown meeting with Deputy First Minister John Swinney tomorrow.
Alan Draper, spokesman for In Care Abuse Survivors Scotland (INCAS), said Mr Swinney would need to answer questions about the allegations made by both Professor Michael Lamb, who quit the inquiry panel last week, and Susan O’Brien QC, who left while under investigation for allegedly holding views ‘incompatible’ with the post of chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
Mr Draper said: “Professor Lamb has made some serious allegations about government interference in the work of the inquiry. We assume that the government is not questioning his integrity. We need,therefore, to know in what way the government interfered, why they interfered, and who authorised the interference?
“These are crucial questions. Survivors need honest answers from government , if their trust in the process is to be restored.”
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