Barnardo's Scotland

Right, so I'll get into it, right, but...

I'll need to check I'll need to get logged in and check it because it's got to the point now people are that invested there is folk like there's folk messaging me going I was in Dunbarton the other day I checked Barnardo's for you so there's nothing there but I'll have a look and see if you have so you've only got one no I've got three well three I've got three now right so I'm on day seven obviously I'm not doing this every day I'm no like actively like the first couple of days obviously I was in Wishy I could just jump to them and stuff like that but obviously once you start needing to go further out I'm no fucking yeah you're going to have to go out to car boot sales aren't you aye aye there's one on Saturday at Uddingston but anyway so what happened was I just had this idea I was like I'm going to just do this fucking challenge remember I actually mentioned ages ago for a podcast so it was a podcast idea that I

had

where I was actually going to get the leather boys to go and they would go and they had a tenner budget and they had to go and get an outfit and they would come in and wear it on the podcast that's how it kind of came into my head and I was like what about doing something like you've got to try and find a certain item and then I was like a lot of people are talking about the NFL on my TikTok I was like fuck it I'll do an NFL thing plus that'll be hard as fuck and it'll be it'll be kind of content so because if it runs for however long I don't really care I

no I know I could get away or even just fucking punt it on Vinted or somebody said that you could put it all up in here because somebody had messaged me saying I'll buy that off you and I was like nah I kind of need to keep it

man

because I need to I want to see it off it to two items so I took the Broncos off that's a big I know I didn't think I'd get the Broncos so it's a cool tap as well and then somebody else had messaged me and they're like don't know if this is cheating or no but I have donated a couple items and it was Bellsill Barnardo's so on the way home from East Kilbride I'd obviously could just go

off that take that cut off and come off that's no cheating no plus I make

Lisa's probably a better woman than me.

For all I know, she's probably helping at Barnardo's or Save the Children.

I have no idea.

Only Allah knows who's better.

We're doing a charity giveaway on the show next week.

[laughs] Do something about Barnardo's.

Love you, everyone.

What a silly name for a charity.

So the money raised at Electric Picnic would have been, uh, divided between all of the groups who had volunteers on site.

So in this case, we're talking about our charity partner, which is Return for Children, and that supports six national children's charities, namely Barnardo's, Barretstown, Childline by ISPCC, Jack and Jill Children's Foundation, Laura Lynn Children's Hospice, and Make-A-Wish Ireland.

And then we also had community groups, Meath Camogie, Killeshing GAA, Children's Books Ireland, and Down Syndrome Center.

So the money then was, was divided between all of those beneficiaries.

And this man, obviously tired of having my father around, I suspect he might have been a bit of a handful...

And so he wrote to Barnardo's and asked Barnardo's if they would take my father, which they agreed to do.

And fairly soon after that, I suspect he was earmarked for emigration because Barnardo's were one of many organisations that were involved in this child emigration to Canada.

But they, in the end, were the organisation that emigrated the most.

They were responsible for over a quarter of of the children that went so around 25 000 or more so he was earmarked for immigration and was sent over the age of 12 in 1907 uh and placed on a farm uh in ontario where he he worked until he was 18. he then seems to wanted to get a some sort of business qualification so he wanted to move away from farming uh despite bernardo's trying to persuade him not to and he did I know very little about what happened to him for the next few years, but he then came over in 1916, came back to Britain, along with many other home children, in the Canadian Army to fight in the First World War.

another girl was trapped by lawyer reeves into saying yes by the lawyer putting a string of questions to her which he knew would yield the answer yes when the girl would otherwise undoubtedly have said no to one of these questions the one he wanted her to say yes to this and much more of vital consequence to the case mr king's counsel let pass which together with the aforesaid apparent intentional omission of evidence considerably gave the case away still for all that had the subcommittee had eyes that wished to see they could well have seen they did see the nut saw it was an agreed thing that the teachers were to be dismissed superfluous witnesses the parson's witnesses all the witnesses he had been able to scrape up were two old women one of whom was the mother of several illegitimate children seven they say the other was the churchwarden's washerwoman who had found herself bound to attend the inquiry when told to do so but these witnesses were altogether superfluous to the case they knew absolutely nothing whatever about it and were not concerned in any way whatever but bar these no other witnesses could be got the former dear old dame came to say she had seen rude conduct in the playground by some infant boys rude conduct indeed madam what about your own the other crone had a fairly easy time of it in hypocritically whitewashing the bernardo foster-mother whom she had formerly been in the habit of painting black bernardo boast of victory the foster-mother too who during the past few days had been lamenting the fact that she was forced by the rector against her will to go on with this business and that she herself had nothing against mrs higden had got a good lift up by the turn of events at this friday's inquiry and was able to come out shouting i'm not dead yet i'm not dead yet her conscience or her fears had doubtless been finding her in the wrong but now apparently much to her surprise and relief the norfolk education committee were justifying her as the rector and his wife and brother farmer fisher her husband's employer had done all through whether this county official and local priestly approval of her actions afforded her some quack balm to her conscience or not heaven knows at any rate she now seemed less inclined to turn back from such a lead but rather to go on to the stupid and sordid boast of victory as displayed by her on a large placard attached to a pole in her garden on the day the teachers were dismissed victory indeed it should make the bones of the good doctor bernardo the friend of little children turn in his grave the bernardo foster parents the man to whom this woman was wedded and who was present in support of his wife at the manager's meeting at which mrs higden was first of all condemned unheard had served a month in norwich gaol for an offence which cannot be named and was only let off so lightly on account of his mental deficiency o ye bernardo people ye subscribers to bernardos ye religiously require that these refugee children should be taken to church or to chapel regularly do ye not for the rest come to burston and make inquiries for yourselves as to what the moral and religious training of these children really is There is also a history of Bernardo children in Burstyn, in some respects worse than that which led to the school strike.

Chapter 4 Part 1 A Further Appeal to Barnardo's when you read this further appeal you can if you like except you now think you have a serious responsibility to those children do the same with it as you did with the first appeal sent you by mr and mrs higden send it back to burston again to hear what the rector has to say about it but why should you regard the rector of burston as being infallibly right and all the parents children teachers and burston people generally wrong if he were not a clergyman would you not begin to suspect whether his reports were not possibly incorrect Parsons may, and sometimes do, unfortunately, tell untruths as well as other folk.

Anyway, is it not your duty to find out who is responsible for the lies put into these children's mouths? If you will come down and consult the people of Burston, who know, you can easily assure yourselves.

an n u t secret report but those letters to bernardo's for which mr and mrs higden were condemned by the norfolk education committee how strange how irrelevant condemned and dismissed for sending letters to dr bernardo's mrs higden a long-standing subscriber to bernardo's too see casey's pamphlet oh ye defenders of bernardo's what about the health and morals of bernardo children this brings us back to mr king's counsel again his failure to admit evidence to cross-examine etc was there not also a secret report shown to the norfolk education committee or to some of the members or officials thereof or at any rate were not the education committee informed of the contents of such a report was it to excuse his own failure to win the case that mr king's counsel reported falsely and untruly against the teacher according to the king's counsel a letter of mrs higden to bernardo's contained language difficult to justify do not be alarmed gentle reader by language mr king's counsel simply appears to mean the contents or substance of that letter it only became known to mr and mrs higden a short time ago that the king's council had reported thus the fact then being made known by a deputation to burston of two national union of teachers gentlemen sent by their executive committee one of which gentlemen read the said letter to the assembled strike parents children and teachers to the entire satisfaction of the deputation every statement in the letter referred to was immediately justified up to the hilt by witnesses present at the meeting the letter related to the evil influences by which the bernardo children were surrounded at burston stories they had been made to tell c mr king's counsel had shut out of the inquiry the witnesses who could thus have fully justified the statements contained in that letter language difficult to justify indeed condemned unheard mr higden is also condemned equally with mrs higden for statements made by him in a letter to bernardo's but mr higden prior to the inquiry was given to understand that there was no complaint whatever against him and that he was not required to attend the inquiry he was therefore not present yet in his absence a letter of his to bernardo's is read and he is condemned and dismissed for writing it again see casey's pamphlet thus no opportunity whatever was given him for defending himself or for justifying the statements contained in his letter he did not even know that any letter of his was to be read his letter was simply a further appeal to bernardo's for investigation with a view to the removal of one of these girls whom he described as being somewhat mentally and morally deficient the whole matter of this correspondence produced by rev eland by what right one would like to know was sprung by surprise upon mrs higden at the inquiry so that she also was given no reasonable opportunity of defending herself with regard to it while instead of defending her her own union lawyer reports secretly that her letter contained language difficult to justify it could it can be it has been justified discourtesy it appears that mrs higden did not bow to miss eland the rector's daughter as she whizzed past her on a bicycle one day during the christmas holidays that mrs higden gave mrs eland a cold reception one afternoon when the latter visited the school notwithstanding both shook hands with each other and said good afternoon and that mrs higden did not reply to rev eland when he passed her in the road one day and said good day this also was during the christmas holidays nineteen thirteen the rector omitted to say that mrs higden was standing in the road with her back towards him as he passed along on the path behind the trees though he did say with much scorn that she was talking to an old woman with a pram yes she was indeed talking to an old woman with a pram sir she was talking to the woman with a view to bringing the poor old lady and another a bit of christmas cheer and what if she did not reply to your salutation was she not on holiday and might she not well have forgotten all about parsons school managers and other officials or officious persons and perchance fail to recognise them without any intended discourtesy but the rector was seeing to that It was during those same Christmas holidays that he was so busy with this Bernardo business, and that, as a result of a hastily called scratch manager's meeting, Mrs. Higdon had been informed that the Bernardo children should return to school after the Christmas holidays, and be treated as other children in the school.

Yeah.

Barnardo's.

Yeah, because you start having sex with someone, the Barnardo's stop and go, "This is such a mess.

What are we t- what are we doing? How did we get here?"

[laughs]

More than half of primary school children and two thirds of secondary students refused to go to school at least once last year.

A new survey by the children's charity Barnardo's has found reasons included anxiety, difficulties engaging with lessons and problems with friendships.

Our social affairs correspondent Kitty Holland has the story today.

Kitty, kids are, you know, they're often complaining about having to go to school.

Yeah, we'll say, for instance, autistic children, they will have very sort of sensorially...

Centred challenges around school environments and that kind of thing.

So did parents make any recommendations? Did Barnardo's have any recommendations off the back of this?

I mean, all the parents who spoke about this said that they wanted more support from the schools.

But I think, in my opinion, the price of some of these are just so extortionate, like anywhere from 20 to 30 euro for a single branded crested uniform jumper.

And there was research out from Barnardo's recently, their back-to-school survey, saying that primary school uniforms costing families from around 110 euros And, you know, euro up to, you know, 200 euro.

And that's really expensive for one child.

And if you multiply that out, if you have more children and also they go through growth spurts and you have to go back and buy more.