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Education + Children……
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- the education of many evacuees was disrupted as rural schools could not cope with the influx of children from the cities
2
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How many people were helped to leave the cities?
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- between September 1940 and December 1941, over 1,250,000 were helped by thee government to leave cities
3
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What did Sir John Anderson do?
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- Sir John Anderson, in charge of evacuation divided the country into three areas: evacuation, neutral and reception areas.
4
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How many children were eligible for the evacuation scheme?
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- 500,000
5
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How many people were evacuated before the war?
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- Estimated that between the end of June 1939 and the first week of September, 3.5-3.75 moved were evacuated from potential bombing areas.
6
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How many people participated in the Evacuations?
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- Uptake of Evacuation scheme was less than 40%
7
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What did Scotland don differently with Evacuations to England?
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- In Scotland children were placed in family groups compared to England’s school class groups.
- Meant that children were more likely to be with their siblings in Scotland.
8
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How many people made private evacuation arrangements?
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- Approximately 2,000,000 people who were wealthy or had relatives in rural areas made private evacuation arrangements
9
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Why did people go home?
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- Many evacuees went home during the Phoney War period as the Lutwaffe didn’t really do anything at the start of the war; there wasn’t a threat.
10
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Why did Overseas Evacuations stop?
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- Overseas evacuation was distrusted after the City of Bernard’s was sunk by a U-Boat in September 1940, killing 73 children :(
11
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Where did Scottish evacuees go?
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- Glasgow evacuees went to Ayr, Dumfries, Rothesay or to Rural Perthshire.
- Edinburgh evacuees went to the Borders or the Highlands.
12
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What did rural hosts think of the children?
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- Evacuees came with little, for example with clothing, and rural hosts could not believe how poor they were
13
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Who were also eligible for evacuation?
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- Mother’s with children under school age, invalids and the blind.
14
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What doesJohn Macnicol suggest?
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- Evacuation only served to reinforce existing class prejudices about feckless mothers and poor parenting and that was was required to solve the problems of verminous children was better prenatal education and not a welfare system.
15
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What does Richard Titmuss believe?
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- He believes that evacuation stirred the national conscience and produced important changes in social policies such as the 1944 Education Act.
16
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What does Angus Calder believe?
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- He would look more to the impact of big government on people’s lives, insisting the notion that what worked in war-time could work in peace-time.
17
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What was also evacuated as well as people?
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- Goods were also evacuated, for example paintings from the National Gallery and the Bank of England.
18
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What was the personality of Sir John Anderson?
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- It was claimed that Sir John Anderson was a cold, inhumane character who had little understanding of the emotional upheaval that may be created by the evacuation scheme.
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