Editing Barnardo's (section)

==Criticism==

===Cedars controversy===
In 2011, Barnardo's was criticised for its work in [[Cedars (immigration detention)|Cedars]], the name chosen by [[UK Immigration Enforcement]] for what it describes as "pre-departure accommodation" ([[immigration detention|detention]] facility) near Gatwick Airport used to hold families with children pending deportation. Barnardo's provides "welfare and social care facilities" at the detention centre, which is managed on behalf of [[UK Visas and Immigration]] by private security company [[G4S]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/organisation/pre-departure-accommodation/ |title=Pre-departure accommodation – Cedars |publisher=UK Border Agency homepage |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref> Barnardo's has been criticised by Frances Webber of the [[Institute of Race Relations (United Kingdom)|Institute of Race Relations]] for "legitimising child detention".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.irr.org.uk/news/does-barnardos-legitimise-child-detention/ | location=London | publisher=Institute of Race Relations | first=Frances | last=Webber | title=Does Barnardo's legitimise child detention? | date=17 March 2011}}</ref>

Anarchist extremists opposed to the detention of children, such as members of the [[No Border network]], have mounted a campaign against the charity's involvement in Cedars.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-02 |title=British activists are 'dangerous and don't care about refugees' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-jungle-uk-activists-dangerous-and-don-t-care-about-refugees-says-official-responsible-for-clearing-camp-a6905871.html |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://london.noborders.org.uk/barnardos/timeline |title=Barnardo's campaign timeline |publisher=London No Borders |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref> This included actions such as occupying Barnardo's London head office in February 2012,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://london.noborders.org.uk/node/583 |title=Video of Barnardo's Protest |publisher=London No Borders |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref> and disrupting the "Barnardo's Young Supporters" choir concert at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in April 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/495335.html |title=Activists disrupt Barnardo's fundraiser over child detention |publisher=UK Indymedia |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>

In response to criticism, Anne Marie Carrie, then Chief Executive of Barnardo's, stated that the decision to provide welfare and social care services at Cedars is in the children's best interests,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/sep/11/barnardos-chief-social-care-asylum-seekers |title=Barnardo's chief: in the best interests of the children |work=The Guardian |date=11 September 2012 |access-date=28 February 2013}}</ref> outlining Barnardo's "red lines" and the action it will take if the welfare and dignity of any asylum seeking families and children is at risk.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnardos.org.uk/news/media_centre/press_releases.htm?ref=70802 |title=Barnardo's sets out red lines for involvement in Pre-Departure Accommodation |date=7 July 2011 |access-date=29 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927010843/http://www.barnardos.org.uk/news/media_centre/press_releases.htm?ref=70802 |archive-date=27 September 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnardos.org.uk/news/media_centre/Barnardo8217s-stands-by-red-lines-on-family-returns/press_releases.htm?ref=83024&&topic=2&pageno=3 |title=Barnardo's stands by red lines on family returns |date=19 September 2012 |access-date=29 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927010712/http://www.barnardos.org.uk/news/media_centre/Barnardo8217s-stands-by-red-lines-on-family-returns/press_releases.htm?ref=83024&&topic=2&pageno=3 |archive-date=27 September 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnardos.org.uk/news/media_centre/In-response-to-the-report-by-Her-Majesty8217s-Chief-Inspector-of-Prisons-report-on-Cedars-pre-departure-accommodation/press_releases.htm?ref=82873&topic=11&year= |title=Barnardo's response to the report by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons report on Cedars pre-departure accommodation |date=23 October 2012 |access-date=29 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212216/http://www.barnardos.org.uk/news/media_centre/In-response-to-the-report-by-Her-Majesty8217s-Chief-Inspector-of-Prisons-report-on-Cedars-pre-departure-accommodation/press_releases.htm?ref=82873&topic=11&year= |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy }}</ref>

===Child physical and sexual abuse===
The 2014–2015 [[Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry]] included 
Barnardo's Sharonmore Project, Newtownabbey and Barnardo's Macedon, Newtownabbey among the institutions under investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hiainquiry.org/index/frequently-asked-questions.htm|title=Frequently asked questions|date=7 October 2015|access-date=28 May 2017}}</ref> The charity was aware of child abuse but did not retain the records, as the evidence could have been used in court.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15326932.child-abuse-cover-up-claims-after-barnardos-admits-systematically-destroying-files/|title=Child abuse 'cover-up' claims after Barnardo's admits systematically destroying files|date=4 June 2017|access-date=2 May 2020}}</ref> Barnardo's was also implicated in this inquiry for sending British children to Australia in the mid-20th century, where some were tortured, raped and enslaved.<ref name="auto"/> Barnardo's acknowledges its role in this "well intentioned" but "deeply misguided" policy supported by the government of the time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.barnardos.org.uk/who-we-are/our-history|title=Our history|website=Barnardo's}}</ref>

Barnardo's was further scrutinised in 2018, as investigations and inquiries into failures in NGO safeguarding expanded.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ratcliffe|first=Rebecca|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/31/mps-accuse-aid-groups-of-abject-failure-in-tackling-sexual-abuse|title=MPs accuse aid groups of 'abject failure' in tackling sexual abuse|date=2018-07-30|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-04-08|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In 2020 the [[Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry]] issued a report which included Barnardo's homes at Tyneholm, Balcary, Glasclune and Craigerne in Scotland.  The Inquiry concluded that children in the care of these homes in the 1950s and 1960s suffered emotional, sexual and physical abuse.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 2020|title=Case Study no. 3: The provision of residential care for children in Scotland by Quarriers, Aberlour Child Care Trust, and Barnardo's between 1921 and 1991|url=https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/media/2347/qab-case-study-findings.pdf|access-date=18 May 2021|website=Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry}}</ref>

====Apology====
Martin Crewe, the head of Barnardo's Scotland, said in 2020: "We absolutely apologise for what happened to those individuals. Any instance of abuse is absolutely unacceptable."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-02-14|title=Charity boss says sorry for abuse at children's homes|url=https://news.stv.tv/scotland/charity-boss-says-sorry-for-abuse-at-childrens-homes|access-date=2021-05-18|website=STV News|language=en-GB}}</ref>

On 11 March 2022 ministers from the five main political parties in Northern Ireland and six abusing institutions made statements of apology in the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]].<ref name=sorry>{{Cite news |title=Abuse survivors hear Stormont public apology |last1=McCormack |first1=Jayne |last2=Andrews |first2=Chris |work=BBC News |date=11 March 2022 |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-60676276}}</ref> The six institutions that apologised for carrying out abuse were De La Salle Brothers, represented by Br Francis Manning; the Sisters of Nazareth, represented by Sr Cornelia Walsh; the Sisters of St Louis represented by Sr Uainin Clarke; the Good Shepherd Sisters, represented by Sr Cait O'Leary; Barnardo's in Northern Ireland, represented by Michele Janes; and Irish Church Missions, represented by Rev Mark Jones.<ref name=sorry/>

In live reporting after the apology, BBC News reported that Jon McCourt from Survivors North West said "If what happened today was the best that the church could offer by way of an apology they failed miserably. There was no emotion, there was no ownership. ... I don't believe that the church and institutions atoned today." He called on the institutions to "do the right thing" and contribute to the redress fund for survivors, saying that institutions have done similar for people in Scotland.<ref name=sorrylive>{{Cite news |title=Abuse survivors apology delivered at Stormont (reported live)| last1 = Connolly | first1 = Gráinne| last2 = Glynn | first2 = Niall| last3 = McCauley | first3 = Ciaran|website=BBC News |date=11 March 2022 |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-northern-ireland-60665887 }}</ref>{{rp|15:11}} McCourt praised the government ministers' apologies; they had "sat and thought out and listened to what it was we said", but said that the institutions had failed to do this, leading to some victims having to leave the room while they were speaking, "compound[ing] the hurt."<ref name=sorrylive/>{{rp|15:22}}

Others angry at the institutions' apologies included Caroline Farry, who attended St Joseph's Training School in Middletown from 1978 to 1981, overseen by nuns from the Sisters of St Louis,<ref name=sorrylive/>{{rp|15:04}} Pádraigín Drinan from Survivors of Abuse,<ref name=sorrylive/>{{rp|14:55}} and Alice Harper, whose brother, a victim of the De La Salle Brothers, had since died.<ref name=sorrylive/>{{rp|14:55}} Peter Murdock, from campaign group Savia, was at Nazareth Lodge Orphanage with his brother (who had recently died); he likened the institution to an "SS camp". He said "It's shocking to hear a nun from the institution apologising ... it comes 30 years too late ... people need to realise that it has to come from the heart. They say it came from the heart but why did they not apologise 30 years ago?"<ref name=sorrylive/>{{rp|14:34}}