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UK Government's 2010 Apology to Former Child Migrants

In 2010, at a poignant and historic event, the UK Government formally apologised to thousands of former child migrants who were sent to distant parts of the Commonwealth.

The apology, delivered on February 24, 2010, by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, marked a significant acknowledgment of the suffering experienced by approximately 130,000 children who were forcibly shipped away from Britain, most recently to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Rhodesia, from the 1870s until 1970.

Child Migrants Trust

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    The Premier, The Hon Jacinta Allan today delivered an Apology to those people who were abused as children in the care of Victoria's institutions.

    Child Migrants Trust

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    Margaret Humphreys


    Director of Child Migrants Trust

  • Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry – second volume findings

    ‘Successive governments failed to end abusive child migration policy.’

    Lady Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry

    Lady Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry said: “My findings in volume 1 alone show clearly that, however well-intentioned some of those who advocated for child migration may have been, the policy of child migration and the systems under which it operated were deeply flawed.

    Child Migrants Trust

  • UK Government's 2010 Apology to Former Child Migrants

    In 2010, at a poignant and historic event, the UK Government formally apologised to thousands of former child migrants who were sent to distant parts of the Commonwealth.

    The apology, delivered on February 24, 2010, by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, marked a significant acknowledgment of the suffering experienced by approximately 130,000 children who were forcibly shipped away from Britain, most recently to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Rhodesia, from the 1870s until 1970.

    Child Migrants Trust

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