Every year the Pound Pub Legacy website runs a Demons of Adoption Award
There's not any doubt in my mind where this year's UK nomination should go
Barnardo's UK and its ill informed CEO Martin Narey who thinks
the solution to family breakdown is to take the kids away and
have them adopted. Yet another thing about Barnardos that has not
changed since I was in its care over 50 years ago. Perhaps we
should pack them all on boats and send them off to Canada and
Australia to work entirely unsupervised by Barnardo's on farms,
another practice that was very popular with Barnardos in the
past. Going backwards seems to be the in thing with Mr Narey and
Barnardo's. An organisation that can't even manage to treat its
past charges with any respect whatsoever. Always offensively
patronising, but this reaches new heights. Surely it is time to
hand this kind of work to a specialised Government funded
agency and take it out of the hands of Mr Narey and his
colleagues.
agency and take it out of the hands of Mr Narey and his
colleagues.
Robin Harritt
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Yeah. While I didn't know of the awards, I went through utter disbelief that people are still pimping this so much.
ReplyDeleteIt was the comment in the Sun that got me (shuddup, it was in the garage I was waiting in :p):
"I think we try too hard with birth parents."
Talk about mind-bogglin'!
trin
Umm... in a garage? OK I believe you
ReplyDeleteI have to say after nearly 20 years of dealings with Barnardo's it doesn't much surprise me that that is the attitude there. Note that we've not seen all the other children's charities rushing in to risk their credibility by agreeing with Mr Narey