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UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 = A Study in Policy Failure /

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Title/Author:	UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970/ by Gordon Lynch.
Reminder of title:	A Study in Policy Failure /
Author:	Lynch, Gordon.
Description:	XIII, 338 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Great Britain—History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0
ISBN:	9783030697280

UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 = A Study in Policy Failure /
Lynch, Gordon.

UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970A Study in Policy Failure /[electronic resource] :by Gordon Lynch. - 1st ed. 2021. - XIII, 338 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood,2634-6540. - Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood,.

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.

Open Access

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.

ISBN: 9783030697280

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254150
Great Britain—History.

LC Class. No.: DA1-995

Dewey Class. No.: 941

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