Brown to apologise to care home children sent to Australia and Canada

Gordon Brown is to offer a formal apology to tens of thousands of British children forcibly sent to Commonwealth countries during the last century, many of whom faced abuse and a regime of unpaid labour rather than the better life they were promised. The prime minister plans to make the apology in the new year after discussions with charities representing former child migrants and their families,

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Government records show that at least 150,000 children aged between three and 14 were taken abroad, mainly to Australia and Canada, in a programme that began in 1920 and did not stop until 1967.