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Just in case anyone is interested, Baroness Barker's question to the Government in the House of Lords about our right to have access to our records of our time in care and Lord Adonis's answer can be seen at


http://www.publications.parliament.u...t/50614-17.htm


This question was about the very important subject of access to files by people who have been in care and by those who were adopted and raised the point that there should be parity for these two groups in their rights to access to files.


I personally felt that what Baroness Barker said about adopted people's advantage over those in care was a little optimistic on their behalf. From my experience of being both adopted and in care and from helping other, it is actually often more difficult to get your care records if you have subsequently been adopted I do not see how the new regulations improve that situation and I shall be making that point to her.


Contrary to what some may have believed, this was not a discussion about Civil Registration records. Proposed changes to our access to those records fell with the Regulatory Reform Committee's rejection of the Regulatory Reform Order on Civil Registration of Births and Deaths, last December. Though I think we may see another attempt at changes to B,M&D records there is no current threat to our access to those records at present.

Robin Harritt

Who used to be Gareth Dafydd Curle and who is still fighting for the right to find out the full reason for my time in care and subiquent adoption.