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Barnardo's is a national charity working with poor and disadvantaged children. In 1867, in response to London's child poverty, Thomas John Barnardo opened a ragged school. This was followed by a home for boys in Stepney, and later a Girls' Village Home in Barkingside. By the time of Barnardo's death in 1905, his organisation had 95 homes. The 1948 Children's Act, driven by the 1946 Curtis Report, made local authorities responsible for destitute children, and Barnardo's began to work more with families. Its last traditional children's home closed in 1989. The decline in the need for residential homes during the 1960s led to the 1966 change of name from Dr Barnardo's Homes to Dr Barnardo's. This was shortened to Barnardo's in 1989. Source: Dango database of archives of non-governmental organisations at http://www.dango.bham.ac.uk/
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