UK child migration to Australia, 1945-1970 : : a study in policy failure / / Gordon Lynch.
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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| Superior document: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in the history of childhood
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 pages) |
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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