EAN: 9783030697303

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD ...

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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