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Caritas Salford Diocese
CCRS Press Statement: 30th May 2008.
Following a programme of renewal called Faith in the Future, Salford Diocese is now restructuring the welfare services it provides for both children and adults through the setting up of a new charity, CARITAS SALFORD DIOCESE.
This will allow the Diocese to bring under one roof all its charitable works and administer them in accordance with the requirements of employment law, health and safety law etc without duplicating the spending of scare resources available to the present agencies, Catholic Children’s Rescue Society (CCRS) and Catholic Welfare Societies (CWS).
To prepare for this new charity, the Trustees of CCRS have been reviewing its present services to children and the assets available for these works. At the same time recent changes in legislation relating to adoptions is placing CCRS in the difficult position of running a risk of jeopardising all the other children’s services presently offered.
After long and searching discussions the Trustees of CCRS have taken the decision that due to financial, structural and legal pressures CCRS will cease to act as an adoption agency.
CCRS will continue to offer all its present fostering and post adoption services, and these will continue through the new charity when it becomes active. Our commitment to children has not wavered.
The Trustees of CCRS fully appreciate the significance of no longer recruiting, assessing and approving couples for adoption. The Society’s priority now is to ensure that all their current adoptive applicants are cared for and supported through to completion of the process. We also recognise our responsibilities to those working at CCRS in adoption.
The family of Salford Diocese has met and adapted to changes in the past and has drawn new inspiration from doing so. The purpose of this new charity, and the changes that come with its creation, is to help us continue “to proclaim the good news to the poor…to set free those who are oppressed”.