22 APRIL 1960, Page 14

CHILDREN'S HOMES your issue of April 8 you publish an

appeal for funds from a well-known children's home in which the sponsors say—I quote the appeal—To cut down expenses, we have embarked on a pro- gramme of "centralisation." ' In an adjoining inset is a picture of a large block of buildings three or four storeys high. I am sure this building will be clean, hygienic,. convenient, and economic to run, but is this really the best kind of home we can give to deprived children nearly fifteen years after the publication of the Curtiss Report, in which the case for small domestic 'homes,' as against the still all too current legacy of Victorian barracks, was so abundantly made?—Yours faithfully,

22 Nevem Road. SW5