No great surprise

Barnardo's has become an organisation that will do anything, say anything,
to fill it's coffers no matter how wrong, no matter how immoral.  But what's
new, that's what it has always done right back to it's involvement with the
government in sending many thousands of child away to slave labour in
Canada in the infamous Child Migration Schemes to both Canada and
Australia,  for which it has never seen fit to offer a formal apology. So it's
no real surprise to me to read this on the Open Democracy website

'Barnardo’s! Please quit the child detention business'

Alida Alisis, 8 August 2011

Back in March, almost a year after the government had promised to end what Nick Clegg called the “shameful practice” of locking up asylum seeking families in conditions known to harm their mental health, Barnardo’s stunned children’s advocates by revealing that it had agreed to work with the UK Border Agency and security giant G4S at the new immigration detention centre for families with children at Pease Pottage near Gatwick that’s opening later this Summer.

Read the rest of the story here

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/alida-alisis/barnardo%E2%80%99s-please-quit-child-detention-business

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