What plans it has to provide older survivors of historic abuse with urgent financial and practical support.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-00384 on 15 June 2016. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.
To adequately respond to the individual and often unique needs of survivors, the survivor support fund will contain a discretionary element. This will not provide compensation or redress payments to survivors, but will provide real flexibility in the provision of a range of ad hoc needs that cannot be readily met by or commissioned from existing statutory or non-statutory services.
All in care survivors that meet the criteria to access the survivor support fund, including older survivors, will also be eligible to apply for need-based and outcome-focused support from the discretionary element of the support fund, which will become fully operational in the autumn.
The Scottish Government will continue to explore all possible means of further support for survivors of all ages, including older survivors.