For young people who have grown up in care, with disrupted and complex lives, making sense of family connections and histories is not only more difficult, but also has great meaning in establishing their identity. People in care may have fragmented memories and don’t always have lifelong relationships to help them fill in the gaps in their understanding.
Imagine what it is like if you know there is information about parts of your childhood in local authority care records, but when you contact the council, you wait months for a bureaucratic response. When you eventually receive your care records through the post, large portions of it are blanked out and those parts that you can read contain upsetting derogatory references to you and members of your family. At its worst, this is what it is like getting access to records.
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