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1. The 'Daring Experiment': The London County Council and the Discharge from Care of Children to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s

This article examines the activities of the Children's Committee of the London County Council (LCC) and what a contemporary newspaper referred to as a 'daring experiment':

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This article examines the activities of the Children's Committee of the London County Council (LCC) and what a contemporary newspaper referred to as a 'daring experiment': its efforts to discharge children from public care to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. Archival evidence reveals how Irish children were identified and separated from English children in care and, in many instances, more...

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Journal of Social Policy, Vol: 32 Page: 75-92 2003
Paul Michael Garrett

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