Refugee Children in England

Problems arising from the evacuation of children have lately been discussed at length. This paper deals with a similar subject, an evacuation problem on the largest scale. Evacuation of schoolchildren means more than the separation of children from their parents and home environment for an indefinite time; it means also the abandonment of many factors which have been regarded as essential for their development. We are far from asserting that with evacuated children as contrasted with refugee children the problem of the " broken home " need arise. On the contrary, we may assume that life under new sociological and psychological conditions may very often have a positive influence on many children who, otherwise, Would never have had the opportunity to live and grow up outside the narrow confines ?f their " traditional " atmosphere, and to make contact with a wider world. In the