Cambridge Evacuation Survey

<p>This book was originally published in 1941. In September 1939 the family life of large numbers of parents and children in England and Scotland was voluntarily broken up; 750000 school children 542000 mothers with young children 12000 expectant mothers and 77000 other persons left their homes and agreed to go wherever they were sent in small country towns and rural areas. Yet no sooner was the great migration accomplished than its reversal began. Mothers and children began to trickle back to the industrial centres from every district.</p><p>The Cambridge Evacuation Survey arose from a discussion in October 1939 among child psychologists and social workers many of whom had taken part in the actual evacuation or were engaged in some form of practical work among children who felt that a detailed study of what was happening in one area might bring out causal sequences which would become blurred and lost in a larger and more comprehensive study.</p><p>This volume collates and analyses the information taken from the survey including chapters on what the children say children and foster parents and children's recreation in Cambridge.</p>