Time to make alternative provisions

摘要

I note that you intend to publish an article in response to the Birdsgrove House concerns of Philip Crabtree and Margaret Partington(PJ,7 May,p544).In spite of this,some of the points which I made in Council some years ago during the debates on the establishment of Hope House are even more relevant now than they were at the time.I think that they bear repeating.Critical to all considerations of Birdsgrove is the fact that it devours money - most charities do.The difference with other charities is that most have moved to deliver their services in keeping with the needs of the time.Birdsgrove has not.