Explain the differing reactions of people in Britain to the policy of evacuating children during WW2

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Joseph Davison 11C

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Explain the differing reactions of people in Britain to

 the policy of evacuating children during WW2

People in Britain had differing reactions towards the evacuation of children in Britain depending on who they where. Parents had different reactions than their children because the experiences of the evacuation would be different. The carers who took the children into their homes also had different reactions.

Parents questioned the need for evacuation from the cities and did not see the relevance of it. Parents often did not know where the children were going to be evacuated to. This made evacuation unpopular with the parents and many questions were raised. Parents wanted to know who would look after their children and where their children were going.

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        Lots of unhappy children were sent away because of evacuation. They did not want to leave their parents and in return their parents did not want to leave them. They did not want their children to live in strange areas with strangers, because, after all, that was what the carers were. They were strangers who volunteered to look after the children. They did not know the children’s parents and the parents did not know them. Some families did arrange for their children to be sent to relations but more often than not children were sent to strangers.

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