[shef]

Robin.

I am sorry you are haivng to be faced with all of this...but Im a bit confused as to who you are dealing with. Is it with the After care team..or other people..sorry if you have explained it all...I am not familiar withthe procedure as I had not problems with the after care SW.

shef

[Robin Harritt]

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Hi Shef

It's not After Care it's these people, who you have to go to if you were adopted from care.

http://www.barnardos.org.uk/familyconnections.htm

Despite their publicity material I don't think I've ever met quite such a shower of unprofessionalism. And in my business that's surprising most journalists have a lot more integrity than most social workers I've whilst trying to find my family.

From what I have been reading not everyone in the UK has had quite such a good experience of After Care as you seem to have had. A lot is down to the individual SW Helen who I saw when I first went back to Barnardos was very good at her job, her bosses who are still there are not.

Robin

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[shef]

ok Robin......i think i understnad...becasue I was not adopted..but was fostered out with a family, then its after care i got my files and help from..so if you were actaully adopted then the sytems is different..and even getting info is different..than for me...is that right?

I am sure there are many different peoples stories about After Care. I guess this time I was lucky with the SW I got and how she has handled things with me.....though she is now my intermdeiary with my searching for bfamily info.....

shef

[Robin Harritt]

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Barnardo's Family Connections UK

Or should that be, Barnardos' Family Connections UK

I wanted to put this up again and with the correct spelling for the search engines

My solicitor retired from from case practise, last month.

A couple of weeks ago I got one of those cards from the postman through the door to say there's a big parcel they tried to deliver while I was out.

Went down to the PO and there were three big parcels about as much as you'd want to carry of past correspondence, I've not had the heart to look at it all yet. Over £50 in postage

The bill for the last five years work has arrived, not as much as I thought which encourages me to carry on.

Barnardo's claimed last December that they had provided me with ALL the documents from my file, in a recent letter they admit that they have not. Those they have provided are very very poor quality copies. Extremely poor compared to the copies I have seen at Barkingside. So the fight goes on.

So be warned, if you're given any choice beware of Barnardos Family Connections, Adoption Support Agency is a real misnomer, 15 years of grief trying to deal with Barnardos.

Barnardo's Family Connections

They're not as good as they want you to think and never have been, you might find yourself cut off with no service at all right in the middle your search. Barnardos Family Connections used to call itself Barnardo's Counselling Services Project, it hasn't improved for changing its name.

Barnardos Family Connections now refuse to see me even though I am in the middle of tracing my patrilineal family. They are providing no counselling, most of my documents have arrived on the doorstep via its and my solicitors. Completely against the rules. The documents that Barnardos still withhold are of great importance to my current situation.

Barnardos (Dr Barnardo's) access to records


and still after eight years


Barnardos (or Barnardo's) letter re Family Connections


Would you trust these people?

Would you trust them to transcribe documents for you?

From Barnardo's at Barkingside the main policy as always in the UK, is, keep individual and corporate backsides covered never mind the individual lives of past clients or their families.


Robin Harritt

harritt.eu

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[Robin Harritt]

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I received another weaselly letter from Campbell Hooper, Barnardo's lawyers, on Thursday


They object to my use of the word veracity (as in lack of)


Perhaps someone can help me out with another term to use when one social worker within an organisation tells you one thing and then another social worker from the same organisation tell you something completely different? What's the polite way of questioning that?


Well at least Barnardo's seem to be refusing to comment at all on what I have said in a letter to its solicitor, re my father's family. Usually if Barnardo's know nothing on a particular issue there is a swift denial of all knowledge, I have to take that as affirmative, along with its offer to cooperate with an ASA of my choice. In making that offer it implicitly acknowledges that the file that it last year claimed to be complete, can not possibly be so if it has other information.


Why do people who would like to claim that they are 'professionals' have to play these stupid games?


Prior to the coming in to force of the Legitimacy Act 1959, Affiliation proceedings were heard in open court and reported by newspapers, so it is hardly that Barnardos are protecting some great secret. Particularly given the speculation that I have already passed on via Campbell Hooper its solicitors. All they would be doing is saving me some research at Colindale or the top floor of Romford library, where appropriate newspapers still exist. And perhaps they could then see that the whole thing is handled with some care and sensitivity. But in my experience Barnardo's Family Connections Project Barnardo's Family Connections is much more in the business of protecting the Barnardo's corporate backside.


As for those already found, apart from my alleged father's family from his his later marriage and the family of my brother who died, the rest all keep in touch at least. We tend to see each other at least once a year. The Germans, I keep in touch with via the internet. So I guess I can't have done all that much wrong so far.


Robin


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[disolveme]

You asked for comparisons...

I recently contacted 'Spurgons Birchington childrens home'. After finding it on the net. I didn't expected to receive much information, perhaps the date I went into the home as a baby and the date I was adopted.

Within a week, they sent me a file, full of letters between them and my bmother. Lots of detailed information.

Also, offers to contact them if I had any questions.


I hope you find what you are searching for.