KCA have been involved in the preparation of a high number of reports on historic abuse cases (in excess of 100 historic abuse cases for the Scottish Courts and around 250 overall for the Irish, Scottish and English Courts), many of them arising from the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry and relating to high-profile cases occurring in specific schools and care homes.

Through having handled numerous historic abuse cases, KCA have found that the working patterns of abuse survivors often fall into broad categories involving either very little employment due to having fallen into a life of drugs and/or crime, a (sometimes high-achieving) career interrupted by trigger events, or a flatlined career showing earnings below what the individual may have, with better confidence, been able to achieve.

Through their extensive in-house library of data regarding historic earnings, including the New Earnings Survey (NES) and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), KCA are able to consider market rates for a range of professions and to match these to the individual’s specific circumstances.