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oapen-20.500.12657-486832021-05-19T00:58:05Z UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 Lynch, Gordon History of Britain and Ireland History, general Imperialism and Colonialism Australian History religion charity colonies open access empire European history History Historiography Colonialism & imperialism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history::HBJD1 British & Irish history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTQ Colonialism & imperialism This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children. Between 1945 and 1970, an estimated 3,500 children were sent from Britain to Australia, unaccompanied by their parents, through child migration schemes funded by the Australian and British Governments and delivered by churches, religious orders and charities. Functioning in a wider history of the migration of unaccompanied children to overseas British colonies, the post-war schemes to Australia have become the focus of public attention through a series of public reports in Britain and Australia that have documented the harm they caused to many child migrants. Whilst addressing the wide range of organisations involved, the book focuses particularly on knowledge, assumptions and decisions within UK Government Departments and asks why these schemes continued to operate in the post-war period despite often failing to adhere to standards of child-care set out in the influential 1946 Curtis Report. Some factors – such as the tensions between British policy on child-care and assisted migration – are unique to these schemes. However, the book also examines other factors such as complex government systems, fragmented lines of departmental responsibility and civil service cultures that may contribute to the failure of vulnerable people across a much wider range of policy contexts. 2021-05-18T15:50:40Z 2021-05-18T15:50:40Z 2021 book ONIX_20210518_9783030697280_6 9783030697280 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48683 eng Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9783030697280.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030697280 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0 10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 2563df2a-9f16-4497-bcd0-27e5a71df323 7a8b4a26-5828-4c29-893e-8a38e5e6bb97 9783030697280 Palgrave Macmillan 338 [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC University of Kent open access
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This open access book offers an unprecedented analysis of child welfare schemes, situating them in the wider context of post-war policy debates about the care of children. Between 1945 and 1970, an estimated 3,500 children were sent from Britain to Australia, unaccompanied by their parents, through child migration schemes funded by the Australian and British Governments and delivered by churches, religious orders and charities. Functioning in a wider history of the migration of unaccompanied children to overseas British colonies, the post-war schemes to Australia have become the focus of public attention through a series of public reports in Britain and Australia that have documented the harm they caused to many child migrants. Whilst addressing the wide range of organisations involved, the book focuses particularly on knowledge, assumptions and decisions within UK Government Departments and asks why these schemes continued to operate in the post-war period despite often failing to adhere to standards of child-care set out in the influential 1946 Curtis Report. Some factors – such as the tensions between British policy on child-care and assisted migration – are unique to these schemes. However, the book also examines other factors such as complex government systems, fragmented lines of departmental responsibility and civil service cultures that may contribute to the failure of vulnerable people across a much wider range of policy contexts.
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