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"We're just getting fobbed off. The evidence is all there," she said.

"I have to do the chasing, they never ring me, I've explained my situation, I'm really struggling and I just get fobbed off," he said.

She said she felt "fobbed off" when she told doctors about her constipation and rectal bleeding.

However, the parent told BBC Scotland News they felt “fobbed off” by the local authority – and that other parents had not been informed of the breach.

The victims commissioner for England and Wales said she often hears of victims being "ignored or fobbed off" by police forces.