MAA Scotland
@maascotland.bsky.social
Movement for an Adoption Apology in Scotland.
maascotland@gmail.com
https://movementforanadoptionapology.org/maa-scotland-2/
maascotland@gmail.com
https://movementforanadoptionapology.org/maa-scotland-2/
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BBC News - Mother and baby home archives to be digitised
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Mother and baby home archives to become digitised
The records will be preserved in a permanent archive - aimed at providing relatives and survivors with the opportunity to research their past in a single location.
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August 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
BBC News - Mother and baby home archives to be digitised
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Press release on Birthlink data breach scandal.
August 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Press release on Birthlink data breach scandal.
Charity fined following destruction of irreplaceable personal records | ICO share.google/CaLzcBbu7w4H...
Charity fined following destruction of irreplaceable personal records
We have fined Scottish charity Birthlink £18,000 after it destroyed approximately 4,800 personal records, up to ten percent of which may be irreplaceable.
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July 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Charity fined following destruction of irreplaceable personal records | ICO share.google/CaLzcBbu7w4H...
Charity fined £18,000 after destroying thousands of post-adoption support records share.google/CqaH7hP1xHtt...
Charity fined £18,000 after destroying thousands of post-adoption support records
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July 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Charity fined £18,000 after destroying thousands of post-adoption support records share.google/CqaH7hP1xHtt...
ICO fines charity following destruction of irreplaceable personal records - TFN share.google/Wp1kbZnshiZL...
ICO fines charity following destruction of irreplaceable personal records - TFN
Handwritten letters and photographs from birth parents amongst items destroyed.
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July 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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MAA Scotland makes no apologies for campaigning for identifying information for all parties to historic forced adoption.
July 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
MAA Scotland makes no apologies for campaigning for identifying information for all parties to historic forced adoption.
July 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The first statutory public inquiry on forced family separation in the UK.
Executive Committee Business - Inquiry, Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses and Redress Scheme Bill - Northern Ireland Assembly TV share.google/4a6gTABjCBED...
Executive Committee Business - Inquiry, Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses and Redress Scheme Bill - Northern Ireland Assembly TV share.google/4a6gTABjCBED...
Executive Committee Business - Inquiry, Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses and Redress Scheme Bill - Northern Ireland Assembly TV
https://youtu.be/crWRbE7Osm4 Executive Committee Business – Inquiry, Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses and Redress Scheme Bill
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June 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The first statutory public inquiry on forced family separation in the UK.
Executive Committee Business - Inquiry, Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses and Redress Scheme Bill - Northern Ireland Assembly TV share.google/4a6gTABjCBED...
Executive Committee Business - Inquiry, Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses and Redress Scheme Bill - Northern Ireland Assembly TV share.google/4a6gTABjCBED...
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“Lived experience” is important but imo it’s now being weaponised by a handful of people who believe theirs’ is more valid than their neighbours’ & they should be the only ones heard. What is more patronising than suggesting everyone affected by trauma will view the world in the same way?
June 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
“Lived experience” is important but imo it’s now being weaponised by a handful of people who believe theirs’ is more valid than their neighbours’ & they should be the only ones heard. What is more patronising than suggesting everyone affected by trauma will view the world in the same way?
Australian social workers apologise for forced adoption.
AASW Historical Forced Adoption Practices Apology | AASW share.google/3MWXRLJcCDkL...
AASW Historical Forced Adoption Practices Apology | AASW share.google/3MWXRLJcCDkL...
AASW Historical Forced Adoption Practices Apology | AASW
Home » AASW Historical Forced Adoption Practices Apology 18 June 2025 The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) unreservedly apologises for the historical forced adoption practices that sepa...
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June 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Australian social workers apologise for forced adoption.
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BBC News - Mother and baby homes survivors 'excluded again' by Executive Bill
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Mother and baby homes survivors 'excluded again' by Executive Bill
A bill to establish an inquiry into the homes "just deepens the sense of marginalisation", a survivor has said.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
BBC News - Mother and baby homes survivors 'excluded again' by Executive Bill
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What reparation looks like ..... in NI
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June 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
What reparation looks like ..... in NI
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April 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Let’s start with all those that live in #Cork & then those that live in #Ireland. We should all care enough to show we care by signing this Petition.
8 5 9 children are missing, some are thought to be buried on the grounds of #Bessboro PLEASE SHOW YOU CARE & SIGN, HELP US TP HONOUR THE CHILDREN🙏
8 5 9 children are missing, some are thought to be buried on the grounds of #Bessboro PLEASE SHOW YOU CARE & SIGN, HELP US TP HONOUR THE CHILDREN🙏
About time I shared this again. There is a live planning application on the grounds of #Bessborough. 761 children died on the premises. 859 are unaccounted for. 923 babies 31 women died. WHERE ARE THEY? Sign, share. Keep these children in your thoughts.
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Sign the Petition
Stop future development on remaining Bessborough grounds!
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April 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
'Judged, stigmatised, blamed' Not enough has changed. We are proud to collaborate on this project. www.vopfn.org/timeforachange
March 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
'Judged, stigmatised, blamed' Not enough has changed. We are proud to collaborate on this project. www.vopfn.org/timeforachange
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📢 This #SingleParentsDay, we're excited to share a powerful new film 🎬
Time for a New Chapter, led by Glasgow Caledonian University & global experts and prodcued by media co-op highlights single parents' strength & tackles misconceptions.
📺 Watch now: opfs.org.uk/get-involved...
Time for a New Chapter, led by Glasgow Caledonian University & global experts and prodcued by media co-op highlights single parents' strength & tackles misconceptions.
📺 Watch now: opfs.org.uk/get-involved...
March 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢 This #SingleParentsDay, we're excited to share a powerful new film 🎬
Time for a New Chapter, led by Glasgow Caledonian University & global experts and prodcued by media co-op highlights single parents' strength & tackles misconceptions.
📺 Watch now: opfs.org.uk/get-involved...
Time for a New Chapter, led by Glasgow Caledonian University & global experts and prodcued by media co-op highlights single parents' strength & tackles misconceptions.
📺 Watch now: opfs.org.uk/get-involved...
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Legislation to help survivors of Irish mother-and-baby homes now living in the UK access compensation has been tabled in the UK Parliament
Philomena's Law tabled to help women access compensation
Legislation to help survivors of Irish mother-and-baby homes now living in the UK access compensation has been tabled in the UK Parliament.
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March 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Five years ago, Scotland was forced to leave the EU despite voting by 62% to Remain and now the Scottish economy is shrinking by £3bn per year and Westminster has grabbed our devolved powers via the Internal Market Act 😢
#IndyToRejoinEU
#IndyToRejoinEU
January 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Five years ago, Scotland was forced to leave the EU despite voting by 62% to Remain and now the Scottish economy is shrinking by £3bn per year and Westminster has grabbed our devolved powers via the Internal Market Act 😢
#IndyToRejoinEU
#IndyToRejoinEU
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The brave ‘Anne’ reminds us that the grim history of Mother and Baby Institutions impacted Northern Ireland’s Protestant communities as well as Catholic ones. The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is currently recording further survivor testimony.
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'I was raped by my stepdad before my eighth birthday... then treated like a servant at Belfast mother and baby home'
A Northern Ireland woman abused from the age of four and raped just a month before her eighth birthday has described being treated “like a servant” in a mother and baby home after becoming pregnant at...
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December 4, 2024 at 5:33 PM
The brave ‘Anne’ reminds us that the grim history of Mother and Baby Institutions impacted Northern Ireland’s Protestant communities as well as Catholic ones. The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is currently recording further survivor testimony.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...
Forced family separation as political punishment. Who would have thought? How zealots can use the law for their own ends.
‘Harm to children was part of the point’: a harrowing film on US family separations
‘Harm to children was part of the point’: a harrowing film on US family separations
Errol Morris’s bleak documentary Separated has gained in relevance since it premiered with more ‘state-created orphans’ to come under a second Trump administration
He thought he was working in the past tense, making a film about what one…
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December 3, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Forced family separation as political punishment. Who would have thought? How zealots can use the law for their own ends.