I joined the army at 16 to get out and away so that saved me.
My sister on the other hand ended up on drugs and I mean hard drugs who has lost her kids.
What they did to my sister and I was disgusting. I asked the social worker why did you leave us in a place where you knew we were being totally whacked every day with belts, straps, planks of wood etc in the last foster home and he said that they thought it might blow over.
No they just did not want to do more paper work and wanted to keep us away from our real mother.
MAYBE ONE day I will find out if she is alive but in the meantime I have 3 kids who will never go through any of that and they will not be living in a socialist country if I or the misses have anything to do with it.
I hate to draw this particular analogy as I know it's an overly-extreme one, but I am reminded of the situation in Germany where after the fall of the Wall and the beginning of reunification, it became apparent that there were millions of families who had been torn apart when East Germany had been created and so an entire Governmental entity (or rather numerous ones) had to be created in order to put peoples' lives back together...whether that might have been from families that were separated and had lost track of one another, political 'disappearances' or whatever. There was a huge amount of information maintained by the East German government which needed to be sifted through and disseminated to the proper people.
Since it seems that the people of Great Britain have finally had their fill of the Labour government and Conservatism is on the rise throughout the UK, my hope is that one day there will be a 'new openness' to finding information such as what you seek, where it will no longer be buried under mountains of impenetrable bureaucracy but will be given out in a new spirit of reconciliation between the British Government and the people.
I hope that one day you will get the answers you are looking for.