... children efficiently and well. The whole process of evacuation was planned before the war, from lessons the government learned at Guernica, when the German squadrons bombed it.. Because the government organised the evacuation scheme before the war, they were able to evacuate children from when the war first started, from the first weekend in September 1939. The government planned everything extremely well, given that it was the first time that evacuation was used in Britain. The country was divided into different areas; there were 'evacuation', which were major industrial cities, 'reception', or least likely to be bombed, and 'neutral areas'. The government was aided with the co-operation of schools, of parents of the evacuees and the local authorities. The government successfully organised trains to transport the children to the various places in Britain. A good thing about where the children were evacuated to was that they were evacuated in schools. ...

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