Former children's home residents and abuse survivors have gathered at the end of a campaign to reinstate headstones for hundreds of children who lay in unmarked graves. A white rose was laid in ...

A man who was sexually abused at a children's home in the 1970s has said some of its staff ran it like a military institution where physical abuse was normalised. David Whelan gave evidence to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chief executive officer of Quarriers she was 'deeply saddened' by evidence of harm at its former residential homes. The boss ...

More than a quarter of people who alleged they were abused at a children's home said they had told staff about the attacks while they were still in care, an inquiry has been told. The Scottish Child ...

A former resident of a children's home has told an inquiry that suffering abuse "became a way of life" for him at the institution. The man described how his house parents at Quarrier's Village in ...

A CHILD abuse victim who was plunged into freezing cold baths for wetting his bed said his children’s home was like a “prison camp”. Thomas Hagan, 82, spent two years in hospital after being subjected ...

A man who was sexually abused at a children's home in the 1970s has spoken of his belief a paedophile ring may have been operating inside the facility. David Whelan, who waived his right to anonymity, ...

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A former "house mother" known as Auntie Effie who mistreated children in her care in the 1960s and 70s has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Retired social worker Euphemia Ramsay ...

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