"Campaigners will meet with SNP ministers this week to discuss calls for financial compensation and a public inquiry into hundreds of cases of historic abuse in Scottish children's homes. They say Mr MacAskill was originally scheduled to lead the Scottish Government delegation at St Andrew's House in Edinburgh on Wednesday."
"However, he has now been replaced by two junior colleagues - public health minister Michael Matheson and children's minister Aileen Campbell - alongside community safety and legal affairs minister Roseanna Cunningham."
"The Scottish Government last night insisted there had been a `communication mix-up` and the cabinet secretary had never been scheduled to attend the meeting."
"Several of the campaigners will be from the In-Care Abuse Survivors group (Incas), including Frank Docherty - who exposed the scandal of unmarked graves at the notorious Smyllum orphanage in Lanark - and Helen Holland - who was abused in a Nazareth House home in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire."
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/497535/EXCLUSIVE-MacAskill-snubs-abuse-survivors
See also http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/call-for-inquiry-into-historical-child.html
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