Newsletter 1

November 2002

In Quest Newsletter for the INCAS SUPPORT GROUP

Incorporating:
INCAS [In-Care Abuse Survivors]

+STOP PRESS+
Frank Docherty attended the recent
"One Year On" meeting of the Cross Party Working Group on Childhood Sexual Abuse.
After which he chatted with various people, passing on details regarding INCAS - and, more importantly , making sure it was widely understood that as INCAS
"We will not be going away"

BREAKING NEWS
After a further meeting with Andy Kerr MSP, he wrote to advise that he'll be discussing the content matter with Marilyn Livingstone, MSP. Any outcome, and our actions, will be reported on in a later edition.

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Hi, I'm John.

I'd like to extend a warm welcome to you all in this the first, on-line, edition of In Quest

At the last group meeting (Tuesday October 22) it was agreed [and accepted by the Steering Committee] that we adopt the name INCAS [In Care Abuse Survivors].
So, we can now produce a Newsletter.

A Draft of the proposed 'Constitution' was circulated and will be the subject of discussion
When this has been ratified and approved we can then move ahead - apace!
To comply with current Laws and Regulations [e.g. Data Protection Act, 1998] a hard-copy mailing to our currently held database of "members" will take place.
The purpose of this is two-fold;

1. To ascertain continued interest in and confirmation of a wish to formally apply for membership.

2. To seek a Mandate which will then allow us to proceed with certain avenues of research - in relation to forthcoming campaign strategies.

Frank Docherty - Founder member of INCAS - has (further) damaged his health in his ceaseless effort to establish this group.
Frank's unremitting commitment has created such interest - globally - that the idea of an 'e-zine' seemed an obvious one - if only to help lighten his workload.

By definition, this Newsletter will be of particular relevance to victims [Historical or current]
of In-Care Abuse.
Our research, however, indicates that interest generated has been "Global" - and, in fact, has opened up an entirely new category of "Support".
As a result we intend to open our mailing list to any and ALL who have an interest in our Aims & Objectives [more of which later].
Our only stipulation is that to receive your copy you will be required to subscribe [FREE].

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
We will be ressurrecting the 'Self-Help' aspect [was AVA] under the new title:
H istorical S urvivors ANONYMOUS Arrangements and venues of meetings will be announced in due course. Interest has been such that we are, at this time, looking into ways of setting up 'Chapters' throughout the UK - and beyond!
It is our believe - confirmed by positive feedback - that this form of 'Support' can be more productive than individual psychiatric counselling.
With discussions and campaigns on-going - in the effort to have INCAS officially recognised - it would be greatly appreciated if you could direct any correspondence to;

INCAS [Media Office]
First Floor 26 Ivanhoe
East Kilbride G74 3NZ.
or, email INCAS
In this way some of the strain may be taken away from "The Doc".

WRITE TO YOUR MSP / MP - NOW
In an effort to prevent the recent "1964 Cut-Off" ruling - described by Marilyn Livingstone, MSP as "arbitrary" - being upheld in the Court of Session we ask supporters to write their MSP / MP asking him/her to contact Jim Wallace, MSP - Justice Minister - to overturn or amend the ruling.
Upholding of same in the Court of Session would ensure real discrimination towards clients [some 498 from Nazareth House alone] which lawyer Cameron Fyfe is taking forward.

PETER MULLAN PLEDGES SUPPORT
At a recent meeting with Frank, in his home, Peter Mullan, Director of the award winning movie The Magdalene Sisters , said he'd be more than pleased to be associated with INCAS.

Reverend Alastair Ramage -
Curator Heatherbank Museum of Social Work [Glasgow Caledonian University] wishes us well and confirms support.

Paddy Doyle tells of a "Journal" sent [by post] to a number of addresses in the UK. He feels the content is cause for some concern - if only for it's anonymous nature and the author's obvious accessibility to some personal data. Paddy has reproduced the 'Journal' - unchanged - and it can be viewed here
Like Paddy, we'd be interested to find out if anyone can throw some light as to the identity of the author(s).

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Links

Paddy's
"GOD SQUAD"

Stop Abuse.org

If you would like to have a link here - or know of a relevant web site , let us know!

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