Ayrshire Child Abuse Case

EDM number 958 in 1994-95, proposed by George Foulkes on 04/04/1995.

That this House notes that the Strathclyde Regional Council social workers and care assistants in the Ayrshire child abuse case were judged by two independent consultants to have acted honestly and in good faith, without collusion and with the knowledge and approval of their superiors and that this conclusion was endorsed by the regional council's Social Work Committee and the Director of Social Work; that, notwithstanding this, some of the lawyers involved and certain sections of the media are mounting a continuing vendetta against the staff involved and urges them to cease this forthwith; and calls upon the Lord Advocate to confirm that no prosecutions will be taken against the staff and on the Secretary of State for Scotland to take action to ensure the children involved in the case remain properly protected and that lessons learned from the case for child care practice are fully taken account of in the Children (Scotland) Bill currently before Parliament and in his guidance to social work departments.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.