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Originally Posted by Elly-adoptee
Robin
Sounds like you've really been given the run around here. I would have thought Barnardo's would have been more helpful than social services, sad to see thats not the case.
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Hi Elly
The one thing that Barnardos is very good at is creating its own properganda.
When comes to the needs of those who were adopted or in care many years ago, Barnardos is by far and away the worst of the non-Catholic charities at giving access to records, but then it probably has just as much to hide as many of the old Catholic agencies do.
I work as a volunteer for one the charities that deal with adult post adoption issues, most social services departments are better than Barnardos are when it comes to dealing with its own adoptions.
Barnardos in Scotland and Ireland (and Aus and NZ probabley) are a very different matter to Barnardos London and its "Family Connections" project. Barnardos Ireland certainly is dealing mostly with adoptions that were arranged by other agencies and does not therefore need to hide its own past bad practice in the way that Barnardos does here.
One day I'll have to list all the things that have happened since I first contacted Barnardos in 1991. The late Alan Levy QC described it as Kafkaesque and like bad episode of 'Yes Minister'. Recently it's looking more like a bad laurel and Hardy script.
I have had problems with Essex and Southend-on-Sea Social Services departments but nothing like as bad as Barnardos. When I first got my records from Essex, Barnardos were desperate to know what Essex had shown to me, because it wanted to try and take legal action against Essex Social Services for showing me documents that Banardos would not. Some of the people at Barnardos London (HQ) really are that pathetic.
Robin