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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Paul Cargill

Violence was allowed to prevail at military boarding school, inquiry concludes

The inquiry found children attending Queen Victoria School in Dunblane were physically and emotionally abused by teachers and older pupils (PA) - (PA Archive)

Pupils attending a military boarding school decades ago were subjected to “dreadful abuse” in an environment where “violence was allowed to prevail”, the chairwoman of an inquiry has found.

Lady Smith, who chairs the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, said children attending Queen Victoria School (QVS) in Dunblane were physically and emotionally abused by teachers and older children, which ought to have been “obvious” to those responsible for running the school.

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