Child Migrant - British Enquiry

In November 1997, the House of Commons Select Committee on Health announced that it was to hold an enquiry into the Welfare of Former Child Migrants. The intention of the Enquiry is to focus on the future and "what might done now to improve the welfare of former child migrants".

The Terms of Reference for the Enquiry are:

"that the Committee should enquire into issues relating to the welfare of former child migrants (that is, those children, now adult, who were transported to Commonwealth countries under the schemes once operated by certain UK voluntary organisations), and to addess what the role of the British Government and others should be in seeking to assist former child migrants to come to terms with their childhood experience and establish contact with their surviving relations in the UK."

CBERS made a submission to the Enquiry and has now been invited to appear before the Committee on 24th June when the members of the Committee come to Perth to take oral submissions.

CBERS goes to the Committee hearing having worked to develop services with, and for, the men and their families over the last three years.

We will be armed with the wisdom that comes from putting together the stories and the voices of many former child migrants and their kin.

Our goal is to put some proposals to the Committee about how we can all work better to give the help that will be required in the future.

We will share these thoughts with you in the next newsletter.

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