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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynch, Gordon.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Series
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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.

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