UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 A Study in Policy Failure /
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...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: 'A serious injustice to the individual': British child migration to Australia as policy failure
- 2. 'The risk involved is inappreciable... and the gain exceptional': child migration to Australia and empire settlement policy, 1919-39
- 3. Flawed progress: criticisms of residential institutions for child migrants in Australia and policy responses, 1939-45
- 4. 'Providing for children... deprived of a normal home life': the Curtis report and the post-war landscape of children's out-of-home care
- 5. 'Australia as the coming greatest foster-father the world has ever known': the post-war resumption of child migration to Australia, 1945-47
- 6. From regulation to moral persuasion: child migration policy and the Home Office Children's Department, 1948-54
- 7. 'If we were untrammelled by precedent...': pursuing gradual reform in child migration, 1954-61
- 8. 'Avoiding fruitless controversy': UK child migration programmes and the anatomy of policy failure.