What links the Prince’s Trust to historical UK child migration schemes?

The Fairbridge Society, which merged with the trust in 2012, was among operators promising poor children a better life' abroad - but many suffered terrifying abuse

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The promise made by successive UK governments to poor and destitute British children taken from their families and sent thousands of miles away to Britain's colonies in the last century was simple: they would have a better life.

Tens of thousands of youngsters were emigrated" in this way, arriving at farm schools" and other institutions run by colonial governments, charities and religious institutions, lured by the promise of education and opportunity".