I
was in Shirley Oaks from around 1971 to 1976. I lived in a number of
different houses and in my view, our experiences there differed
according to which house you happened to end up in. Some were better,
others less so. The issue for me isn't just the sexual abuse that went
on, but there was a lot of other abuse, e.g. racial, that hasn't been
addressed. It's wider than Shirley oaks or the children's homes, but its
also about how Lambeth Social Services dealt with and managed
our lives. I was able to access my files a couple of years ago - a lot
of it was redacted, but to be honest, I read a few pages and felt so ill
and sick that I've not been able to finish reading them since then. I
cannot believe the way in which social workers talked about me, the
things that they said about me. Also, the ways in which they dealt with
certain things that I can't raise here but I know that I lost my son
because of LSS.
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