... air. The bombings in Spain made the government afraid of what could happen and so they started planning early for a future war. Secretly Civil Defence planned and produced the Anderson report in 1938. This developed the evacuation process with arrangements made for billeting evacuees and for the country to be divided into different evacuation, reception and neutral areas. The problem with these arrangements was, as war had not been declared; they had to carry them out in secrecy. No one could be ready for when evacuation would finally happen. The planners recognised that schools would be at a particularly high risk to bombings as they had a high concentration of glass. In Spain, a bomb had hit a school and 70 children where killed, the government didn't want the same tragedy to affect the morale of the British people. The low morale would affect the work rate and strength of ...

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