SCOTLAND
Evening Times
THE scope of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will not be expanded, its new chairman has insisted, as it emerged the investigation has so far cost £2.5 million.
Lady Anne Smith, the judge appointed to head the troubled inquiry after the resignation of its previous chairman, said she brought 15 years’ experience as a high court judge and judge at the Court of Session to the role.
Abuse campaigners have called for the inquiry’s remit to be widened out to include victims who were targeted outwith residential care.
But Lady Smith said: “The terms of the remit were set when the inquiry began. Their width enables us to investigate the abuse of children in residential care in Scotland … from within the living memory of anyone who suffered such abuse up to the end of 2014.”
She said the inquiry was already extensive and had gathered “numerous accounts of abuse”.
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