PSS was founded on January 1st, 1919 in Liverpool to address pressing social needs affecting the city after the First World War had taken its toll. PSS has always found innovative ways of helping the community, and in 1927 established the organisation now known as Age Concern.

Our services have been replicated across the UK and the world, and we continue to find unique ways of helping members of the community that suffer from various mental health issues and other disabilities that require the help of carers.

Over the past 90 years we have achieved various milestones that have shaped us as an organisation;

1927 Founded the organisation now known as Age Concern
1928 Led the formation of one of the UK’s first housing associations: Riverside Housing
1936 Pioneered Marriage Guidance, a forerunner to Relate
1938 Set up the UK’s first Citizens Advice Bureau
1943 Started one of the UK’s first Home Help Schemes
1948 Established a forerunner of Legal Aid
1978 Pioneered Adult Placement Schemes
1985 Launched innovative housing for Ethnic Elders, now replicated across Europe
1991 Managed the UK’s first Young Carers Project
2000 Established PSS Scotland
2002 Launched innovative Siblings project, providing help for the siblings of disabled children
2003 Started the North of England’s first Alzheimer’s Café
2003 Pioneered work with children of drug and alcohol misusing parents
2003 Established first specialist training for interpreters for counselling asylum seekers
2004 Pioneered assistive technology promoting the safety and independence of disabled people
2005 Developed adult placements to promote the independence of ex offenders
2006 Launched new community programme enabling people with dementia to remain in their own homes
2007 Started working with prison visitors’ centres
2008 PSS Adult Placement 30th Anniversary
2009 PSS 90th Anniversary


PSS remains at the forefront of community care with its schemes adopted across the UK as good models of welfare provision. Many of the services we provide offer exciting alternatives to traditional institutional and residential care. The development of alternative models of support for older and disabled people, children and families are at the cutting edge, combining the latest developments in social care with new advances in technology.

To discover how PSS can help a member of your family, your community or yourself contact us on 0151 702 5559 or fill out our contact form.