Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry

NHS Dumfries and Galloway apologises to victims at a residential unit in Dumfries.

Children were beaten, forced to eat soap and shamed for bedwetting at homes in the 1970s and 80s, a court hears.

Keil School pupils were beaten, mocked and sexually abused from the 1950s to the 1990s, in a climate where silence was expected.

John Young used excessive corporal punishment and behaved indecently towards some of the boys.

William Bain admitted abusing 11 boys aged between 11 and 14 at private school across the country.

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has ruled the boarding school had a culture which involved "dreadful abuse'' of children.

Angus Bell said he and other pupils were subjected to extreme abuse by older students at Loretto School in Musselburgh.