Why British Child Migrants need to be remembered by the new Labour Government

Now is an important time for former Child Migrants. They want a commitment from the new Government in the UK to stand by the Apology. Here is one story which explains why.

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The Premier, The Hon Jacinta Allan today delivered an Apology to those people who were abused as children in the care of Victoria's institutions.

Today on the 14th anniversary of the Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants, the Albanese Labor Government recognises the disgraceful treatment of children in out-of-home care institutions across Australia.

‘Successive governments failed to end abusive child migration policy.’

Lady Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry

Lady Smith, Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry said: “My findings in volume 1 alone show clearly that, however well-intentioned some of those who advocated for child migration may have been, the policy of child migration and the systems under which it operated were deeply flawed.

In 2010, at a poignant and historic event, the UK Government formally apologised to thousands of former child migrants who were sent to distant parts of the Commonwealth.

The apology, delivered on February 24, 2010, by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, marked a significant acknowledgment of the suffering experienced by approximately 130,000 children who were forcibly shipped away from Britain, most recently to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Rhodesia, from the 1870s until 1970.