Why Did The British Government Decide To Evacuate Children At The Start Of World War Two?

why the British government do so much planning for the start of the war. Well, there is one simple answer for this – vulnerability. People were uneducated as to what would happen to them in the future and people needed educating as to what would be going on. People mainly needed to know how air raids would work, how many casualties to expect, what to do in a dramatic situation and what to do during a gas attack. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, there were lots of precautions taken including using cinema, drawing up plans for death amounts and practicing air raids in certain places. People had to be educated early to be that bit more prepared for the future and what to do when things happen. The basic idea was the more organised/prepared we were for the war effort the better the chance we had of actually defeating the Germans...Despite some of the precautions I mentioned to you during my first paragraph, evacuation did not take place until 1939 just a few days just before the war started. Children were sent out of any sites where fighting from the war might have taken place like Liverpool docks, city centre to the countryside to be protected. Now this brings me to my first point, before the children were evacuated they had to be selected as to where about they were going and their parents would go with them to drop them off before they were transported to their destination on a train etc. The parents of the children were informed that their children would be safe wherever they went. This was a clever tactic by the government as it made the women of these children think that no matter what happened or where they went, their children would be safe. This would then keep the mothers satisfied and this way and therefore women could and would get on with their own particular jobs in helping out with the war. If women were certain their children were ok, they could concentrate on doing what they had to do and would benefit everyone who had to pull together in the city’s in order to help their own homes and themselves. Therefore, convincing mothers their children were ok so they could help much more with the war effort is the first reason children were evacuated during the Second World War.The next reason as to why children were evacuated is that it would keep everyone safe. The government knew that having young children around within the city’s that would be heavily targeted was not a good idea as this could have easily increased the death rate of not only the children but the adults themselves having to keep their children safe from running off, keeping them from being scared etc. Also, pregnant mothers who went with their other children could be kept safe too to protect their new born baby expected to be arriving and this would make sure they could have their baby without a problem. This also links in with the fact that this would reduce child care problems for the future and this way by having the children evacuated nothing could happen to them. There would always be the chance that children would get up to mischief and they could easily get in the way of the most important things like carrying dead bodies away and that this could cause problems in the city’s community, having them far away would mean there would be no reason to worry about this. Children would also be safe from any bomb scares and would not have any chance of being injured with such things as bomb rubble and would not to have gone through the process of being scared as to seeing injured people/dead bodies etc. Many people’s morale would be boosted by this and in actual fact the people who thought they were safe for definite would feel that the government was actually doing them a favour by getting their children out of the cities (in most circumstances, the people were not definitely safe and the government would lie to them). So by people thinking the government was helping them, they would support other moves that they had ready to save Britain. My final reason as to why it would keep the children safe is that in the long term, it could have caused problems. If these children had seen the dead bodies of the bomb victims, they would have realised the horror of what had been happening and it could have been very traumatic for them and caused problems for them later on in life.Thirdly, the government wanted children to be evacuated to protect the future of the country. If many young children and infants were killed, how would the British population carry on? By having these young children and infants evacuated; we guaranteed that the future of Britain was safe and that there would not be a humongous wipe-out of our population. The youth of that time would be the ones who would carry our population into the twenty first century and it made sense to make sure that nothing would happen to these people as the British population was at stake. Great Britain now holds about 59 million people within itself, the figure would have been dramatically decreased had many of these young people been killed during the war and this country needed to keep as many British to compete with any other threats in the future.Carrying on, another reason that children were evacuated during war was to lessen the panic of the people... If adults had to worry about what was going to happen to their children/where they were, it would have created more panic, leading to even more people who didn’t even have children panicking and this could have easily led to a lot of people getting hurt and even killed. Having children away meant that their number one priority would be to carry on with the war effort which is what was needed the most. By having these children away, the adults morale to keep relaxed would have had a huge increase and everyone could have got on with their daily routines and made sure that they would be safe as they were told time and time again that their children were already safe therefore there would be less panic over them and everyone would feel safe. They would not have to be curious as to what was happening with their children especially if their fathers were in the forces...Finally, my last reason as to why children were evacuated during the war is due to the fact that public buildings such as schools, houses, pieces of land and many more would have more space in them and this would free up therefore this could help with the war effort. Such places as schools could have been used to be shelters treat the injured etc. Having the children there in these buildings unnecessarily would have caused an overflow of people needing to be in buildings and by freeing all this space up could mean people could be spaced out more as to where they would hide from the air raids, be treated for injuries etc. Another reason is that maybe having these children around would have meant people would have had less space in fewer amounts of air raid shelters and this could have caused injury, huge overflow and maybe everyone would have not been able to fit into these shelters. Children could have easily caused problems for people by playing around by bomb sites where they were not needed. Therefore having these children already safe and freeing up land and space made sense – we already have our children safe so let’s free up space for injured and for other used in the help for warIn conclusion, there were many reasons as to why children were evacuated before the start of World War Two, and these reasons all make sense. By evacuating all of these children the British government made people feel safe, made people less panicky, freed up space, made people work harder with the war effort and protected the future of the British nation and economy by doing that much more in helping with the war effort.. Overall, evacuation was a success for the reasons I have just stated and it did no one any harm. Maybe some evacuees didn’t have the best of experiences but at least they were alive, they had survived the threat of war and that is exactly what the British government wanted to happen. The British government weren’t exactly always honest with the people, yet in some ways this helped as people didn’t feel the need to panic and people got on with their jobs with less doubt in their mind. Britain obviously went on to win the war and the government at the time will say that having the children evacuated played a huge part of the reason as to why less casualties occurred and why we won the war, and to a certain degree this is entirely true. People had to work hard and believe in each other and they did. From all the above reasons, this is why evacuation for children occurred.