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Moment woman who was taken from mother at birth finds out what really happened

The UK’s Information regulator (ICO) has warned councils could face legal action over long delays, errors and missing documents for those trying to access their adoption files and care records, in an exclusive interview with ITV News. The Information Commissioner John Edwards has written to all UK local authority leaders warning them of their legal duties and said these records can help to "unlock a person’s identity" and "uncomfortable truths" that matter to society. As part of an ongoing investigation by ITV News into forced adoptions in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, we have spoken to adult adoptees across Britain about their "traumatising" experiences trying to find out basic information about the circumstances around their birth and adoption. Zara Phillips, 61, from North London waited for 18 months for an appointment with a social worker after requesting access to her adoption and care records from the council. When she did eventually receive her documents earlier this month, she was also told her file was still incomplete and some records were missing with little explanation why. “Living with the unknown is like torture,” Ms Phillips told ITV News. “I should have been given this years ago, this is rightfully mine. Everything written on these pieces of paper is about me. I am frustrated and disappointed. What are they trying to hide?” In 1964, Ms Phillips said she was "taken" from her mother as a baby, simply because she was unmarried. After two months in foster care, she was later adopted. Between 1949 and 1976, an estimated 250,000 pregnant, unmarried women and girls were sent away to "prison-like" homes run by the church and state and had their babies put up for adoption. Other infants died due to mistreatment or poor care. The legacy of that time, continues to cast a long shadow. “I was told nothing, just 'you are adopted, be grateful, your mother was young’ and that was it," she said. "That was my story for some many years. The impact is huge, I felt like a mistake, maybe I wasn’t pretty enough? I felt like there was this huge void in me all the time.” Over the decades, Ms Phillips, who is a singer and musician, has searched through hundreds of pages of files, pouring over every last detail. In the 1980s she traced and reunited with her birth mother, and later found her father, but gaps about her childhood remained. Ms Phillips learned through her files that her "mother never even got a chance to say goodbye to me". At just a few days old, she was taken from her mother when she was receiving life-saving treatment after labour in hospital. She is far from alone. For many survivors of the forced adoption era access to records remains a major issue with lengthy delays, unexplained redactions and missing files all too common. Adopted people have had a right to access their adoption records since 1976, but there are huge disparities across England. Councils have a legal duty to respond to requests for personal information, but a backlog of cases, short staffing, fragmented paper records across councils, courts, and other agencies can result in delays and errors, with no national protocol despite repeated calls for reform. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on Instagram:   / itvnews   Follow ITV News on Facebook:   / itvnews   Follow ITV News on X:   / itvnews