Description: Steam train arrives at rural station; boys alight by themselves and are met by foster mother who takes them to their new home. They sit down to tea (mealtime); playing with friends on the village green and paddling in the village pond. Caption reads that Barnardo's are helping to repopulate the rural areas. The Village School; classroom; children at their desks; blackboard; physical exercises; foster parents play with children exterior and interior; sawing and chopping wood; boys pick blackberries; girls play with dolls; welfare officer visits foster home; measures, weighs and examines teeth and throats; visits sick child. Ends with short sequence from Goldings.