Decade

• First section - Church Context

• Second section - Catholic Diocesan Social Welfare Agency Context

• Third section - Social & Legal Context

1897-1907

• 1891 Rerum Novarum

• 1891 Grand Bazaar convened by Preston Catholic Children Protection and Rescue Society - raised £7,214 to establish a Catholic Orphanage/Poor Law School in the town
• 1897 First admissions to St Vincent's - formal opening by Bishop Whiteside of Liverpool in July 1897
• 1898 Nazareth House established in Dalton Square, Lancaster
• 1904 Nazareth House moved to Ashton Road, Lancaster

• 1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
• 1900 the British Labour Party was founded
• 1901 Queen Victoria dies
• 1902 Balfour' Education Act - created an coherent education system in England
• 1906 Provision of Meals Act provided for feeding hungry school children

1907 - 1917

• 1911 Liverpool and Birmingham join Westminster to make 3 Archdioceses in England
• 58% of all Catholics in England were in Liverpool Archdiocese
• Church of Wales disestablished
• Liverpool and Birmingham join Westminster as Archbishoprics

• 29 May 1908 Fulwood Working Boys Hostel opened at 98 Stephenson Terrace, Deepdale Road in Preston
• accommodation for 25 to 30 boys described as 'roomy'
• 1909 the Grand Bazaar raised £3679 to pay completely for this hostel
• 18 August 1917 John Reynolds Home, St Annes opened - a convalescent home for 13 children

• 1913 Mental Deficiency Act
• 1914 the start of the Great War
• 1907 the Medical supervision of children
• 1908 Liberal Government Reforms and the Pensions Act
• 1908 first Old Age Pensions Act passed
• 1909 Housing and Town Planning Act began demolition of slums
• 1909 Churchill's Employment Exchanges introduced
• 1909 Model-T Ford mass produced by Henry Ford
• 1911 Unemployment and Health Insurance was begun under government sponsorship

1917 - 1927

• 1922 G K Chesterton received into Catholic Church

• 22 November 1924 the establishment of the Diocese of Lancaster
• responsibility assumed for Nazareth House in Carlisle, Sacred Heart Convent, Wigton (an orphanage), and St Joseph's Botcherby, Carlisle
• 9 April 1925 96 Stephenson Terrace purchased to extend Fulwood Boys Hostel

• 1918 Fisher's Education Bill becomes law
• 1926 Adoption Act
• General Strike
• Lindburg solo flight across Atlantic
• 1920's 16 Catholic MPs of which 5 in Lancashire: T P O'Connor (Liverpool), Francis Blundell (Ormskirk), Sir Gerald Strickland (Lancaster) Joseph Tinker (Leigh) Sexton (St Helens)

1927 - 1937

• 1931 Quodragesimo Anno

• 1930 200 girls helped during the year at St Teresa's Home and St Margaret's Hostel in Ribbleton, Preston
• 1934 LANCASTER DIOCESAN PROTECTION AND RESCUE SOCIETY established
• Fr Hannigan appointed as first Administrator of the Society (to continue for next 17 years)

1937 - 1947

• 1937 Cumbria and Westmorland Branch of the society founded
• 1943 Brettargh Holt established
• 1943 The Lancaster Diocesan Protection and Rescue Society is granted Approved Adoption Agency status
• 1943 a second mother and baby home opened Brettargh Holt, near Levens
• 1944 the first Carlisle office opens (Miss Helen Lamb worked for many years as a diocesan welfare worker)

• 1939-45 The World War
• 1942 Edith Stein (St Teresa Benedicta a Cruce) murdered in Auschwitz
• 1940/2 C S Lewis publishes 'The Problem of Pain' 'The Great Divorce'
• 1944 Butler's Education Act
• 6 August 1945 Atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki & Hiroshima
• 1946 Beveridge
• 1946 Curtis
• 1947 Coal and other industries nationalised
• 1948 British Railways nationalised
• Mahatma Ghandhi assassinated

1947 - 1957

• 1951 second Administrator appointed : Fr (later Canon) Desmond O'Neill (to continue for next 25 years)
• 1956 Closure of St Vincent's. Remaining young people move into 218 Tulketh Road, Preston
• dramatic rise in the number of infants being placed for adoption

• 1948 Children's Act
• 1948 Dec - Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC received into the Catholic Church. Opens first Cheshire Home at Le Court Hampshire
• 1949 15 Catholic MPs in Westminster
• 1951 763,000 TV licenses issued
• 1952 End of rationing in Britain
• 1952 Albert Schweitzer awarded Nobel Peace Prize
• 1955 Easter Sunday - Teilhand de Chardin

1957 - 1967

• Vatican Council 11
• 1958 Cardinal Roncalli elected Pope John XX111 at age of 76
• 1961 Mater et Magistra
• 1962 Bishop Brian Foley appointed 3rd Bishop of Lancaster
• 1962 Second Vatican Council opened by Pope John XX111 - ends 8/12/1962
• 1963 Archbishop Heenan appointed Archbishop of Westminster
• 1963 'Pacem in Terris' stressed the importance of upholding human rights
• 1967 'Populorum Progressio'
• 1967 Latin mass said in the venacular for the first time

• 1957 218 Tulketh Road ceases to operate as a children's home and becomes the office base for the Catholic Rescue

• CAFOD founded from Freedom from Hunger campaign
• 1958 Adoption Act
• 1959 The Younghusband Report
• 1959 Mental Health Act
• Albert Schweitzer dies
• 1960-69 George Woodcock, a Preston Catholic, Gen Sec of TUC
• 1965 Free prescriptions introduced
• 1966 England win World Cup 4-2 (Germany)

1967 - 1977

• Dom Basil Hume - Archbishop of Lancaster
• 1969 Medellin declaration by South American Bishops stressing that clergy live in exemplary poverty with the poor
• 1971 Derek Warlock appointed Archbishop of Liverpool

• 1971 74 Wellington Road, Ashton opened as a children's home
• 1976 Fr John T Turner appointed as third Administrator

• Seebohn
• 1967 9.3% of school population in Catholic schools
• 1967 Education Act makes 80% grants to RC School
• Social Services Departments established
• 1969 Concorde flies
• 1969 Milton Keynes designated site of OU
• 1970 Local Authority Social Services Act
• 1972 Bloody Sunday in Derry
• 1973 Britain enters ECC Market
• 1973 Watergate - President Nixon impeached
• 1974 National Miners Strike
• 1974 major re-organisation of Local Organisation
• 1976 Adoption Act

1977 - 1987

• 17 October 1979 Mother Teresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize fro her work
• 1979 Redemptor Hominis set out the principles of freedom and human dignity the Church was based on
• 1980 First National Pastoral Congress in Liverpool
• Martyrdom of Archbishop Romero of San Salvador
• 31 May 1981 Barbara Ward campaigner for social justice died (author of 'Progress for a Small Planet' 1979)
• 1981 Laborem exercens argued for a new economic order based on the rights and dignity of workers
• 1982 First visit by a Pope to Britain
• 1985 Bishop John Brewer appointed 4th Bishop of Lancaster

• 1979 appointment of first qualified social worker
• 1981 Fr John Gibson appointed as Administrator
• 1981 Fr David Elder appointed as Administrator
• 9 November 1981 The Lancaster Diocesan Catholic Children's Society incorporated
• Development of contracts with local authority social services and health authorities
• Chaplaincy team established, trained to communicate with deaf people
• 1987 Catholic Caring Services established incorporating the Catholic Children's Society and a raft of activities for disabled adults

• 1980 Child Care Act
• 1982 Barclay Report
• 1983 Mental Health Act
• 1984 Warnock Report
• 1985 Charities Act
• 1987 Criminal Justice Act
• 1987 Family Law Reform Act

1987 - 1997

• 1988 Sollicitudo Rei Socialis

• 1988 Fr Bernard Woods appointed as 5th Director
• 1989 post of deputy director established
• 1993 Jim Cullen appointed 6th Director of Catholic Caring Services

• 1988 Cleveland Report
• 1988 Griffiths Report
• 1989 Children's Act
• 1990 NHS and Community Care Act - contract culture and business relationships between providers and purchasers of services form the new style of social welfare
• 1992 Wagner Report
• 1993 Charities Act

1998 -

• Death of Bishop Brewer
• Appointment of Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue
• 1987 - 2000 First Strategic plan
• 2003 5 year plan launched
• Growth of charity... employees hit 100. New structure, 3 Assistant Directors and Team Leaders/Service managers

• 2003 Concorde last flight