Hull Family Welfare Centre

The records are divided into 2 series as follows:

• Committee papers, 1910-1980
• Correspondence, 1926-1965

Hull Family Welfare Centre, formerly the Hull Vigilance Association, the Hull Moral Welfare Council and the Hull Family Welfare Council (to 1971). The Hull Family Welfare Council merged with the York Diocesan Maternity Hostel to form the Hull Family Welfare Centre, Linnaeus House (1971-c1995).

The Hull Family Welfare Centre was a branch of the Diocesan Welfare Association, opening in 1971 in the newly repurchased Linnaeus House. Here there were ten mother and baby beds as well as such activities as mother and toddler groups and an old people's luncheon club. Within a year it had become clear that the mother and baby work was diminishing. Few of the beds were in use, partly because of the Abortion Act and partly because social workers in both York and Hull now claimed that there were cheaper alternative hostels they could use. By the mid 1990's Linnaeus House, at that time still owned by the diocese was being used as a residential home. The association of the diocese with Linnaeus House came to an end in c1995.