Redress For Survivors (Historical Child Abuse In Care) (Scotland) Act 2021 - assessment framework: statutory guidance - updated August 2024

Introduction

3. The purpose of the Framework is to assist survivors to consider where their own experience of abuse may sit within the levels of individually assessed payment for individual applications and assist Redress Scotland in making determinations on what is the appropriate payment level. It has been designed with the support of clinical psychologists to facilitate fair, transparent and consistent decision-making.

4. Redress Scotland is an independent body and has the flexibility to consider and respond to individual applications and the experience of survivors by drawing on other matters deemed relevant, beyond those considered in this Framework, when assessing an application.