A conference for the survivors of Fornethy Residential School to further their campaign for justice
Fornethy Residential School was located in the Angus Glens and was operated by Glasgow Corporation and their successor, Strathclyde Regional Council. For thirty years between 1961 and 1991, little Glaswegian girls aged between 5 and 12 were sent there for periods of around 6-8 weeks. Over the decades more than 20,000 girls went through this institution. What they suffered there changed many of the Fornethy girls and left them with pain and trauma that would be life long. The combination of psychological, physical and sexual abuse was brutal and merciless.
Now the survivors, the Fornethy Girls are coming together to seek answers and to understand what was done to them and why it was allowed to continue uninterrupted for thirty years.
Their campaign for openness, candour and justice has made huge strides in the year since the first Fornethy Conference and rather than being ignored they are now being discussed in Parliament. Furthermore, police investigations have led to one perpetrator being charged with multiple counts of cruel and unnatural treatment and huge amounts of information have been located in the archives of Glasgow City Council.
This is a conference to update the survivors on all of the progress and on the on-going work to reveal why they suffered so much. It will be an afternoon of mutual support, comradeship and encouragement in the face of lifelong suffering.
This project successfully funded on 23rd February 2024