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Times of Malta | Parliament apologises to Maltese child migrants
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and Opposition leader Joseph Muscat this evening apologised to 315 Maltese child migrants for the suffering many of them endured after they migrated to Australia between 1950 and 1965.
10 March 2010 18:41
BBC News | Asia-Pacific | Australia 'sorry' for child abuse
Australian PM Kevin Rudd has apologised to the hundreds of thousands of people, some British migrants, who were abused or neglected in state care as children.
16 November 2009 10:46
BBC Radio 4 | Today Programme | Farm of Fear
Between 1922 and 1967 up to 10,000 children migrated from Britain to Australia under officially-approved schemes. While some remember the experience fondly, others became victims of beatings and sexual abuse. And newly-discovered records show that the authorities had been warned that the system had few safeguards.
2 October 2009 07:55
BBC Inside Out | East Midlands | British children deported to Australia
Inside Out follows the story of children deported to Australia in the 1940's, '50's and '60's.
6 March 2006
Radio 4 - The Child Migrants
Charles Wheeler presents a major four part series telling through new documentary evidence and vivid personal testimony, the true story of the forced migration of unwanted children from Britain over a sixty year period.
15 September - 6 October 2003
BBC News | UK Politics | Uncovering "Britain's most shameful secret"
British officials have been involved in a "top level cover-up" over the forced migration of vulnerable children, a Labour MP claimed on Wednesday.
20/05/99 10:55:45 GMT
Lost Children Update - September 1999
Families Resume Ties Decades Later
Still Waiting For Governments To Act
Yet Anger Still Smolders
The Lost Children - Part 2 - March 1999
After Many Years, Painful, Emotional Reunions
The Lost Children - Part 1 - March 1999
Australia Wanted More White People
So England Sent It 'Excess Children'
10,000 Children Were Exported
BBC News | UK Politics | Child Migration: MPs demand action
A committee of British MPs condemns the treatment of children sent overseas up to 1967 and demands action to help find their relatives.
30/07/98 11:34:08 GMT
BBC News | UK Politics | Child Migrants deserve help tracing roots
The Health Secretary Frank Dobson is considering offering child migrants practical help to trace their roots in the UK.
16/07/98 21:20:55 GMT
BBC News | Asia-Pacific | Australian child migrant scheme condemned as abuse of power
A delegation of British politicians - in Australia to investigate claims for compensation for child migrants - has said the children were victims of an unforgivable abuse of power.
20/06/98 15:50:27 GMT
BBC News | Asia-Pacific | Deported children seek justice
An investigation is beginning into the thousands of British children who were shipped off to Australia to a life of hardship and neglect. 19/06/98 18:15:12 GMT
BBC News | UK Politics | Children's agencies deny child migration cover-up
MPs are quizzing several children's agencies on their handling of 'child migration', a practice that ended in 1967 but saw 130,000 children sent to Britain's former colonies.
15/06/98 12:08:18 GMT
BBC News | UK | The children Britain did not want
Child migration was a way of life in Britain for more than a century - now MPs are to investigate the results of the policy.
21/05/98 13:33:39 GMT