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Barnardo's is a global charity headquartered in Barkingside in the London Borough of Redbridge. It was founded by Thomas John Barnardo in 1866, to care for vulnerable children. As of 2013, it raised and spent around £200 million each year running around 900 local services, aimed at helping these same groups.
The Children's Society has many programs that help refugee and asylum-seeking youth both in London, where many refugees are concentrated, and throughout the UK. [22] Blackburn Young Refugees provides mental and emotional support services to young refugees and asylum seekers in Blackburn. [23]
There were at the time 25 students. 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.
After training to be a teacher, Javed Khan later worked as a director of education in local government, then the Government Office for London, before becoming CEO of Victim Support. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2014 he was appointed CEO of Barnardos before stepping down in 2021.
Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 1845 – 19 September 1905) was an Irish, Christian [1] philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken in.
The Children's Friend Society was founded in London in 1830 as "The Society for the Suppression of Juvenile Vagrancy through the reformation and emigration of children." In 1832, the first group of children was sent to the Cape Colony in South Africa and the Swan River Colony in Australia, and in August 1833, 230 children were shipped to Toronto and New Brunswick in Canada.
The winners of these awards have worked with children, campaigned for human rights and supported carers, refugees, victims of human trafficking and many others. Partner organisations in this category are: Barnardo's: one of the UK's leading children's charities, working to transform the lives of vulnerable children.
The Memorial to Dr Barnardo by George Frampton, at Barkingside in the London Borough of Redbridge, commemorates the founder of the Barnardo's children's charity. Born in Dublin into a Sephardic Jewish family, Thomas John Barnardo moved to the East End of London in 1866 where he established a chain of orphanages that developed into the Barnardo's charity.