Sturgeon announces pandemic public inquiry
Nicola Sturgeon today announced that the Scottish Government will establish its own judge-led public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by the end of the year, after pressure from relatives who lost loved ones to the virus.
The First Minister said she believed it was appropriate to start the statutory inquiry “as soon as possible” and that Scotland’s lord advocate had begun discussions to appoint a judge.
The inquiry would take a “person-centred, human rights-based approach”, she said, and would look into all the areas that were within the competence of the Scottish Government, including what happened in care homes.