This Society is the Church's arm on professional care of children with special needs in the three dioceses of Arundel & Brighton, Portsmouth and Southwark.

The Society maintains residential Homes for children and offers counselling to mothers faced with the decision as to whether to bring up their children or opt for adoption.
It arranges adoption for babies and infants, and prepares older children who have been deprived of their family life to find new adoptive homes.

Advice and help, such as respite care, is given to parents who bring up handicapped children.

The Society runs the Portsmouth Diocesan Holiday Scheme and offers an education programme through Catholic schools to make children more aware and sympathetic for the less fortunate around them and more appreciative of the values of a stable family life.

Head Office

49 Russell Hill Road, Purley, Surrey, CR2 2XB.

Telephone No.  020 8668  2181

To encourage Catholics and those who have Catholic ancestry in England and Wales to
research their family history.

Secretary:-

Mrs Barbara Murrey, 2 Winscombe Crescent, London, W5 1AZ.

Local Contact:-

Mr V. Fontana, 43 St. David's Road, Southsea, Hants, PO5 1QJ.



Should anyone be interested in starting a Bournemouth branch, please consult the
Parish Priest.

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