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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.

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 child migration schemes funded by the Australian and British Governments and delivered by churches, religious orders and charities. Functioning in a wider history of the migration of unaccompanied children to overseas British colonies, the post-war schemes to Australia have become the focus of public attention through a series of public reports in Britain and Australia that have documented the harm they caused to many child migrants. 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 often failing 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.

The humane remedy : America and the development of mass child migration -- In the children's land of promise: UK child migration schemes to Canada -- No placeless waifs but inheritors of sacred duties : UK child migration schemes to Australia -- I love both my mummies: moral meanings and the wounds of charity -- Remembering child migration today

"It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralized one. Sacred forms - whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise - continue to shape social life in the modern world, giving rise to powerful emotions, polarized group identities, and even the very concept of moral society. Analyzing contemporary sacred forms is essential if we are to be able to make sense of the societies we live in and think critically about the effects of the sacred on our lives for good or ill. The Sacred in the Modern World is a major contribution to this task. Re-interpreting Durkheim's theory of the sacred, and drawing on the 'strong program' in cultural sociology, Gordon Lynch sets out a theory of the sacred that can be used by researchers across a range of humanities and social science disciplines. Using vividly drawn contemporary case material - including the abuse and neglect of children in Irish residential schools and the controversy over the BBC's decision not to air an appeal for aid for Gaza - the book demonstrates the value of this theoretical approach for social and cultural analysis. The key role of public media for the circulation and contestation of the sacred comes under close scrutiny. Adopting a critical stance towards sacred forms, Lynch reflects upon the ways in which sacred commitments can both serve as a moral resource for social life and legitimate horrifying acts of collective evil. He concludes by reflecting on how we might live thoughtfully and responsibility under the light and shadow that the sacred casts, asking whether society without the sacred is possible or desirable."--Publisher's website

Over the past ten years there has been an explosion of interest in how religion and the sacred connect with the media and cultures of everyday life. How are religious communities, identities and rituals being transformed by new media such as the internet? What is the significance of the media when for many people it becomes the primary source of images and of an encounter with religious traditions? Do the media and popular culture themselves take on religious significance, and how do people make use of these popular resources to 'do' religion in the contemporary world? As researchers have trie

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.

The publication of the Report of the Care of Children Committee in 1946 was a pivotal moment for the out-of-home care of children in Britain. With its key recommendations implemented in the 1948 Children Act and the creation of bodies such as the Central Training Council in Child Care and the Home Office's Advisory Council on Child Care, the report also had wider public significance in associating progressive approaches to child-care with the emerging post-war welfare state. This article argues that the creation of the Curtis Committee was far from inevitable and resulted from the inter-play of the growing recognition of the problems associated with a fragmented legislative and administrative framework for children's care and a successful public campaign to reform standards in residential child-care which created the political conditions in which the Labour Government felt obliged to establish a formal Committee of Inquiry. The degree of interest that these processes generated in the Committee's work led to its final report receiving substantial public attention. Although its effects as a mechanism of policy change were uneven, the context through which the report was produced meant that it became a significant benchmark for child-care standards in the emerging post-war welfare state.