History

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.
2010 PSS St Helens Young Carers project launch the first ever St Helens Better Together Young Carers Strategy.
2011 Launch of PSS Dementia Centre in partnership with Liverpool Hope University.

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, please get in touch using the 'Contact Us' link at the top of the page.