The main aim of evacuation was to protect Britain's children form the threat of a German Blitz.

Another major side of the argument is from the parent, some were very keen for their children to be evacuated and thought that it was the safest thing to do. Other parents were reluctant to let their children go because they didn’t think that the ‘Blitz’ was coming. They also didn’t want their children to go because they would miss them and they didn’t have a clue where they were going or who they would be stopping with. Source E shows the viewpoint of a parent reluctant to let her son get evacuated. She feels that he would not get treated properly in Wales and is worried that if she died then her son would be stranded out their. Whereas if he was not evacuated and she died then he could go and live with local friends and families. This viewpoint was typical of a lot of parents but people like this were the ones ruining the whole project.

A big factor of evacuation was the foster parents. Their were a lot of people who were reluctant to accept foster children so the government issued advertisements like the one in Source D it made people think that they are helping out the whole country. Some enjoyed the experience of evacuation whereas some didn’t like it all. Some foster parents found looking evacuation a positive experience because evacuees were a good source of work. They also provided company to lonely people and people who couldn’t have children themselves. For some people who could not help or fight in the war it made them feel like they were contributing to the war effort. For other Foster parents the experience was not a happy one because the children who were put with them didn’t behave. Some of the children wet the bed and some couldn’t read or write. A lot of the children didn’t have proper clothes and although it was not the foster parent’s responsibility to clothe them they felt duty bound to do so.

Arguably the most important factor in deciding whether or not evacuation was a success is the point of view of the evacuees themselves. Source A is a picture showing the evacuees being taken to the train, I do not think that this is a fair representation of the way children felt about being evacuated because at this point the children haven’t met who they are staying with and homesickness hadn’t had a chance to settle in. Also they would be feeling exited because it would be a new experience for them. For many evacuees evacuation was a great success because they learnt a lot of new skills such as joinery or farming, they got away from the dirty air of the city to the clean air of the countryside. A lot of the children were very unfit before they went so they got fit by doing exercise and work. It was a new experience for a lot of the children and Source C shows how their would be a lot of misunderstanding between the evacuees and the foster parents. The children in Source C are lucky because that brother and Sister got to stay together a lot of siblings got split up which would be very difficult for them. I think that as much as possible siblings should have been put in the same house because then their would be someone familiar around them. However some evacuees did not find evacuation a positive experience for a number of reasons. Some found their foster parents hard to get on with or they were abused. Others just missed their parents and their homes too much to cope with. Source B contradicts Source A by showing how nerve racking and scary it must have been for the evacuees. The teacher writing it didn’t even know where they were going so the children and their mothers would have no idea.

In Conclusion I think that evacuation was a success for the majority, although my sources are limited and I do not have enough information to give a proper conclusion, I think that for a lot of evacuees evacuation was a positive experience and it undoubtedly saved a lot of lives during the blitz. I think that their will never be an answer to weather or not evacuation was a success because like Source F shows no two people had the same opinion and the range of viewpoints varied massively due to the points I have addressed in my essay.