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The Council maintains a recuperative holiday home at Littlehampton, Sussex, for
36 children from 3 to 8 years of age, and leases another home at Bognor Regis, Sussex,
for 44 children from 8 to 15 years old. Children who could not be accommodated in these
homes, and all adults, have been placed in homes under private ownership or maintained
by voluntary organisations.
The generally accepted view that it is often not in the best interests of the child to place
him alone, away from his own family environment, has led to a marked decline in the
number of unaccompanied children placed for recuperative holiday, e.g. for children
under five the numbers, even between 1955 and 1959, fell by half from 403 to 203.