ABSTRACT
The shortcomings revealed during the first few months of the war in provision for education in wartime led to widespread dissatisfaction both inside and outside the Board of Education. The return of so many evacuees to the city made it essential for the government to reconsider the viability of the existing evacuation scheme and to attempt to recast it in the light of the difficulties which had arisien earlier. Moreover from the beginning of the war the arrangements for accounting and for apportioning financial liability among the various central and local authorities involved in the evacuation of children had proved to be hopelessly cumbersome. To the extent to which this replanning had proceeded, the education service was the better able to withstand the upheaval following upon the disastrous events of the spring and summer of 1940 — the threat of invasion in the South-east and the Battle of Britain.
