Evacuation of Children

Evacuation of Children This first wave of the evacuation took place during September 1939

1,500,000 people were evacuated 827,000 of those people were

Schoolchildren. The government mainly only offered children the chance

of evacuation if they lived in main industrial areas that they thought

would be bombed. This was because in the recent wars in Spain and the

Far East there had been terrible bombing on industrial towns and large

cities. Therefore making the government nerves about the children's

lives and safety. The evacuees would be moved to the countryside where

booming was not expected. The evacuees would move there and live with

local families. There was also neutral areas these areas were expected

to suffer from light attacks, no one was evacuated or sent to these

areas. One of the main reasons the government evacuated children was

the fact they were the next generation, also the mother of the

children whom had be evacuated had a chance to work therefore they

could help in the factories to make weapons ect.

If the children had stayed home there was a possible chance that more

lives would be taken and more people would be injured because the

parents of the children would be to busy looking after there children

to think about themselves if there was an attack. This would cause

more panic during air raids, making it all very on organised and

dangers.

During the first year the evacuees were evacuated, there was no air

raids or any attacks on Great Britain, so some parents decided to

bring their children home, the government published many posters