A new book sheds further light on Britain’s child migration scheme, which former prime minister Gordon Brown called “ government-induced( human) trafficking ”.... The PA news agency examines some key questions around the programme and the notorious Fairbridge Farm Schools in rural Australia.– What was child migration?... The idea of the scheme was to solve the problem of the number of children who were born into poverty in the UK while populating the Empire with “ good, white stock ”....

Bigger than what people have alleged about Savile.... Bigger than what people have alleged about individual children’s homes.“ Bigger in scale, bigger in geographical spread, and bigger in the length of time that it went on undetected.... When the IICSA published its final report in March 2018 it found evidence that both the British Government and Fairbridge Society were aware of abuse at the farm schools as early as the 1930s....