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"Evacuation was a great success"

Do you agree?

On the 1st September 1939 the first evacuation began. 827,000 school children and 524,000 mothers and pre-school children moved in the following three days. 13,000 pregnant women, 7000 blind and disabled people and 103,000 teachers were also evacuated. This was a procedure that involved children and teachers leaving their homes in large cities to keep safe from bombing. Trains and buses were prepared to transport children out to hosts homes in the countryside. But was the whole process a success or failure? To say it was a success depends on how evacuation is judged.

The government's aim of evacuation was to move children, teachers, blind and disabled people and pregnant women out of the major cities at risk from bombing, to reception areas, mostly in the countryside, so they would be safe, away from the bombing. Evacuation was both successful and unsuccessful. Evacuation was a great success for the government because at the time they managed to persuade people that evacuation was the right thing to do.

The Government did manage to secure its objectives of keeping children safe and keeping the war