SCOTLAND
Premier
Wed 10 Feb 2016
By Antony Bushfield
The Catholic Church is being “let off the hook” for failing children, the In Care Abuse Survivors Scotland (INCAS) group has claimed.
It has called for the Scottish Government to include the faith in the country’s inquiry into the abuse of children in care.
The independent inquiry will be led by Susan O’Brien QC and will cover allegations of abuse of children in formal institutional care including faith-based organisations, children’s homes and secure care as well as those in foster care, long-term hospital care and boarding schools.
It will not cover the wider issue of abuse within the Church and has no powers to look at incidents in parishes or day schools.
INCAS spokesman Alan Draper is quoted by the BBC as saying the inquiry should “fit the purposes of survivors, not those institutions that have failed generations of children”.
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