A ROOM AT AN INN
Snt,—Readers of your challenging article, No Room at the Inn, may be interested to know that in Liverpool a piece of the "creative work" for which Michael Gedge is longing is being done and we are hoping that it is the first of many such experiments. A woman teacher who has been serving for several years in the school attached to a large institution for such children as the writer describes and which belongs to the Local Education Authority long ago decided that these children, however well their physical needs are catered for, are losing their birthright. After endless research she and her good friends, who have unbounded faith in her, have acquired a medium-sized house, and there she is to establish Peacehaven Family Home in the near future. She will admit two or three babies and toddlers of both sexes at first, and as they grow more will join them to make a growing family of not more than twelve. This will be their home for life if they desire it. Various friends belonging to her church will be their uncles and aunts.
There will be a Christian atmosphere in the home, and when membera of the family are old enough they will be allowed to choose their own religious denomination. This venture has the blessing of the Home;
Office and the Liverpool Council of Social Service and deserves all the support we can give it. But imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery.—Yours &c., SOPHIE BLACKBURN. Women's Organisations Committee, Liverpool Council of Social Service, Valescourt Road, Liverpool, 12
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