On 6 January 2021, Lady Smith, chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), reluctantly postponed hearings to examine the abuse of children in boarding schools because of new COVID-19 restrictions. These “phase 6” hearings, concerning seven boarding schools, had been scheduled to start in the second half of January 2021. This phase of evidence will be rescheduled “as soon as possible.”
To date, SCAI has published three sets of case study findings on evidence heard between November 2017 and February 2019 in phases 2 and 3 but has not yet made any recommendations.
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