Evacuation

The evacuation campaign was because of Britain's fear of Hitler invading England, as Hitler had just announced he was going to send the german army into Czechoslovakia. In order to prepare the government had decided to put Sir John Anderson in charge of a plan and he decided to split England into three sections,  evacuation, neutral and reception. As you probably guessed, those in evacuation were told to evacuate however, not all decided to move and the end result was 827,000 school children, 524,000 mothers and children under school age, 13,000 expectant mothers, 103,000 teachers and 7,000 handicapped. This is only 47% of school children and 1/3 of all mothers, so the plan was not yet very successful. Afterwards, those who had taken in the mothers and children came up with some complaints of their own, the children had lice, fleas and scabies. When the time came and went when the expected bombings were supposed to happen, and nobody was bombed parents from the cities began to not believe they were ever going to be bombed and around 4 out of 5 children went home. When France was bombed in May 1940 nothing was changed, but when Britain was bombed in July 1940 more people began to evacuate and in two weeks over 213,000 more children left the cities on trains for the countryside. As a coincidence, my grandmother was one of these children who had left the city for the country. I am pretty sure she was one of the 213,000 because I know she had been part of an air raid. 

I think the government did the right thing during the war, and do not think they should have made it mandatory for the children to move out because its a safety precaution that was advised and everyone was aware they were at risk. Should punishment have been given to the parents whose children returned home during the war? I think that if punishment was given it would have been too much government control, from what I read it seemed that the government strongly advised parents to move their children which is all they can really do.