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

This monograph provides a detailed analysis of UK Government policy and operational processes for assisted child migration programmes to Australia during the middle decades of the twentieth-century. Situating the work in the context of wider policy debates about standards for children's out-of-home care set out in the 1946 Curtis Report, the book examines the UK Government policy failures which led to child migrants being sent to unsuitable residential institutions in Australia and considers the implications of these for understanding the nature of early post-war child-care policy in the context of the emerging welfare state.