UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 : : A Study in Policy Failure.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Series
• Author: Lynch, Gordon.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (345 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: 'A Serious Injustice to the Individual': British Child Migration to Australia as Policy Failure -- Chapter 2: 'The Risk Involved is Inappreciable… and the Gain Exceptional': Child Migration to Australia and Empire Settlement Policy, 1913-1939 -- The Inter-war Expansion of Child Migration to Australia -- Policy Consolidation and the Implications of Institutional Diversity -- Chapter 3: Flawed Progress: Criticisms of Residential Institutions for Child Migrants in Australia and Policy Responses, 1939-1945 -- Child Migration, the Onset of War and Failing Institutions -- The 'Pinjarra dossier' and the Garnett Report -- 'The original idea of the scheme… is sound': Interpretative Frames and Policy-Making -- Chapter 4: 'Providing for Children… Deprived of a Normal Home Life': The Curtis Report and the Post-war Policy Landscape of Children's Out-of-Home Care -- The Curtis Report and the Administrative Restructuring of Children's Out-of-Home Care -- Criticisms of Existing Standards of Care -- 'Child Psychology' and the Ethos of Child-Care -- A Future Beyond Residential Institutions -- The Care of Children Committee and Post-war Child Migration -- Chapter 5: 'Australia as the Coming Greatest Foster-Father of Children the World Has Ever Known': The Post-war Resumption of Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1947 -- The Resumption of Assisted Child Migration in 1947 -- The Catholic Child Migration Parties of Autumn 1947 -- Complex Organisational Systems: Failure, Social Imaginaries and Trust -- The Home Office and Child Migration After Curtis -- Chapter 6: From Regulation to Moral Persuasion: Child Migration Policy and the Home Office Children's Department, 1948-1954 -- Bureaucratic Drag and the Slow Process of Drafting the s.33 Regulations.

Stalled Regulation: Policy Decisions and the Perceptions of State Power -- Limited Oversight and the Route to the Moss Report -- The Moss Report: Findings and Influence -- Moss, the Curtis Report and Differing Interpretations of a Common Policy Framework -- Chapter 7: 'If We Were Untrammelled by Precedent…': Pursuing Gradual Reform in Child Migration, 1954-1961 -- Towards Policy Compromise: The Syers and Garner Inter-departmental Committees on Migration Policy -- Compromise Under Pressure: The Overseas Migration Board -- Policy Crisis: The 1956 Fact-Finding Mission -- Compromise Restored: The 1956 Inter-departmental Committee on Migration Policy and Beyond -- Chapter 8: 'Avoiding Fruitless Controversy': UK Child Migration and the Anatomy of Policy Failure -- Policy Failure and Policy-Makers' Perceptions of the Limits of Their Powers -- Policy Delay, Complex Systems and Misplaced Assumptions -- History, Policy Failure and Redress -- Bibliography -- Published Primary Sources -- Government Reports -- Newspapers -- Archival Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.