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camilla-blog.jpgGordon Brown to apologise to former child migrants: Care leavers charity wants more apologies from UK government

As reported by World News Australia, Gordon Brown is to issue a formal apology next year to thousands of Brits who were put into care as children and sent to Australia, Canada and other former colonies as the result of 20th-century child migrant programs.

As many as 150,000 British children may have been shipped abroad under the programs, which operated until 1967.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/11/gordon-brown-will-apologise-to.html


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