The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) was established on 1 October 2015 under the Inquiries Act 2005 to investigate the nature and extent of historical abuse of children in care in Scotland, including institutional failures to protect them and the continuing impact on survivors. 
Lady Smith delivers the findings about Merchiston Castle School at the release of Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry’s report “Case Study no. 9: Volume 5: The provision of residential care in boarding schools for children at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, between 1930 and 2021”
John Halley, 59, was arrested on 15 February after a police search at an address in Caddonfoot, near Galashiels. He was appointed as a lead junior counsel by former inquiry chairwoman Susan O’Brien KC. He worked on the inquiry until October 2016.
Lady Smith announces the boarding school phase of the Inquiry beginning July 2020. The Inquiry is expected to focus on Fettes College, Gordonstoun School, Keils School in Dumbarton, Loretto School, Merchiston Castle School, Morrison’s Academy during the time it was a boarding school, and the Queen Victoria School in Dunblaine.
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry urges former pupils and staff to come forward ahead of boarding schools case study.
Short, 30-second 2018 TV advertisement for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI).
This announcement provides information about a future Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) case study. Beginning in summer 2020, phase 6 will investigate provision at boarding schools.
“This Parliament must always be on the side of victims of abuse. We must have the truth of what happened to them and how the organisations and individuals into whose care the children were entrusted failed them so catastrophically. We will get to that truth, and we will establish a national public inquiry into historical abuse of children in institutional care.”—Angela Constance, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
