The 13-year-old girl sent on a 'day-trip' to Australia

BBC News

This article from the BBC tells the story of Pamela Smedley, a woman who was sent to an orphanage in Australia from a children’s home in the UK in 1949, at the age of 13, on what she was told was a “day-trip.” Smedley did not see the UK again for another three decades. The article sheds light on this practice, which continued into the 1960s.