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 organization tells you one thing and then another social
worker from the same organization tell you something completely different?
What's the polite way of questioning that?
             

Well at least I 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 Adoption Support Agency 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? Particularly over things that happened 50 + years
ago
             

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

http://harritt.eu
                

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