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Western Isles Council has invited the Social Work Services Inspectorate to look into the authority's involvement with a child abuse case that was recently dropped.

Charges were made against seven men and a woman following dawn raids by social workers and police in a child abuse investigation on the Isle of Lewis last October.

But earlier this month a spokesperson for the Crown Office and the procurator fiscal service said that following a thorough investigation, the crown counsel had instructed that no proceedings should be taken in the case.

Last week, it emerged that Western Isles Council had begun an evaluation of its procedures.