I don't know if you caught news about the Child Migration Exhibition that has been held recently in Westminster Hall, in the Houses of Parliament. This explained in a deeply moving way Britain's reprehensible history of shipping 130,000 children after the Second World to British Colonies, to help develop them but also to get rid of what was seen as an unnecessary social problem in the UK.
The exhibition produced by the Department of Health in conjunction with the Child Migrants Trust to coincide with the national apology being made to child migrants ran from 22 February to 5 March 2010.
The exhibition focused on those children who, between 1945 and 1967, were sent from Britain to Australia, Canada, Zimbabwe and New Zealand and other former colonies. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, made an official apology on behalf of Britain to all child migrants on Wednesday 24 February.
There is also now a £6m Family Restoration Fund available to reunite families and friends some of whom have only just found out about each other. For details of this please feel free to contact my office.
A terrible time in our history now being fully recognised for the wrong we did to so many people for so long.
Posted by David Drew on Sunday, 7th Mar 2010