Overview
- Explores how policy decisions and administrative systems of the United Kingdom Government failed to protect migrated children
- Considers how complex government systems and policy-makers’ own perceptions of their limits of their power contribute to such policy failures
- Examines the causes of policy failure in the care of vulnerable citizens
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)
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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 oftenfailing 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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Book Title: UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970
Book Subtitle: A Study in Policy Failure
Authors: Gordon Lynch
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69727-3Published: 22 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69730-3Published: 22 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69728-0Published: 21 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 338
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History, general, Imperialism and Colonialism