The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has announced it will hold hearings into abuse allegations in boarding schools in summer next year. Chair...

A council that sends children to foster care hundreds of miles away has apologised after giving incorrect information to an MSP. Highland ...

Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch MSP Kate Forbes condemned the situation, describing it as “a matter of great sadness”. A Freedom of Informatio...

SHOCKING details of unmarked common graves at a Scottish orphanage can be revealed today, raising questions for the country's lar...

As scandals over sexual abuse and bullying in the Catholic Church spread globally in recent years, women religious orders seemed to have bee...

Former residents who claim they were physically and sexually abused at two orphanages in Scotland are suing the religious order tha...

A new report published Thursday in Scotland shows that children suffered abuse at two children’s care homes run by a Catholic religious ...

Children at Smyllum Park orphanage were sexually abused and beaten with leather straps, hairbrushes and crucifixes, the Scottish Chil...

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will publish its findings from the case study examining residential institutions run by the Daughters of Ch...

A twelfth woman has been arrested in connection with alleged historical abuse of children at Smyllum Park orphanage. Police Scotland said on...

The judge leading Scotland’s child abuse inquiry has said a “significant number” of additional institutions are to be investigated by her te...

A former volunteer at an orphanage has told how she tried to cover up a child’s bed wetting to save him from being “ridiculed” by a nun. Mar...

It is hardly controversial to say that the institution of the family is in crisis. Fewer and fewer people are getting married, in or out of ...

Criminalising smacking in Scotland would remove parental rights and hand them to the state, an MSP has warned. Gordon Lindhurst, a lawyer ...

A report published by the Care Inspectorate, Scotland’s social care watchdog, revealed that three in four councils reported instances where ...

Katharine MacKenzie told inquiry how youngsters were locked in the Moray orphanage gym to keep 'naughty boys' away from visit...

CHILD sex abuse in Scotland’s care homes has been “drastically” underestimated, a leading social worker told an inquiry, as police were crit...

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A CHILDREN’S home where staff were convicted of sexual and physical abuse was warned of giving children decades ago, an inquiry has heard. ...

AS the ongoing Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry is demonstrating, there are many adults who claim to have been abused in residential care, and a...