Fornethy House survivors protest outside Glasgow City Chambers

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Dozens of women who survived horrific abuse at a council-run school protested outside Glasgow City Chambers today in a plea for justice.

Dozens of women who survived horrific abuse at a Glasgow city council-run school protested outside the City Chambers today in a plea for justice.

Speaking at this morning's demonstration, survivor Carol Robertson said:"We're here today to push Glasgow City Council's buttons. The convalescent school ran between the 1960s and 1990s and was gifted to Glasgow City Council, then known as the Glasgow Corporation, in 1961.At today's protest, Marion Reid, who founded the Fornethy House Residential School Survivors, presented a letter to the city chambers as a written demand for the council to release the women's medical records.

 

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