The Ballads of Child Migration, Sunshine and Oranges, scandal, Whitby Folk Festival, An estimated 100,000 British children were sent overseas on forced migration schemes.

In 1986, a woman told social worker Margaret Humphreys that she had been taken from a Nottingham children’s home at the age of 4 and sent by ship to Australia.

This had happened in the 1950s, and apparently there were hundreds more like her.

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