 |  | | | Alan and Irene Brogan | 01 May 2009 | | |
 Reunited after 45 years apart
A report last week by the Children, Schools and Families committee said that the state was failing in its duty to children in care by not adequately protecting them from sexual exploitation, homelessness and falling into crime. It’s a situation that’s all too familiar to Alan and Irene Brogan. They were born in Sunderland, on different sides of the city, in the 1950s. But when their mothers died, they met, aged 7 and 9, in a cold, regimented children’s home. Over the next year the children became inseperable. But close friendships between boys and girls were strongly discouraged in those days and when theirs was discovered, Alan was sent away without any explanation or goodbyes. Alan and Irene spent the next 45 years of their lives searching for one another, hoping that they’d be reunited. Jenni is joined by Alan and Irene about their institutionalised childhood, their determination to find each other again and their concerns for today’s children in care.
Not Without You by Alan & Irene Brogan is published by Hodder & Stoughton ISBN 978-0-340-97638-8
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