PACT is an Irish adoption organisation founded in 1952, formerly called the Protestant Adoption Society. Its main office, ''Arabella House'' in

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, is named after the philanthropist Lady Arabella Denny. PACT is a registered charity, providing a range of adoption services to Irish families and is accredited by the Adoption Authority of Ireland. PACT run the ''Here2Help'' Crisis Pregnancy Service. Following legislation in 1952 which set up a legal framework for adoption in Ireland, the Protestant Adoption Society was set up in the offices of the ''Church of Ireland Moral Welfare Society''. PACT holds the records of closed Protestant-run homes in

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, including Denny House ( Magdalene Mother and Baby Home) in

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, the

Bethany Home Bethany Home (sometimes called Bethany House or Bethany Mother and Baby Home) was a residential home in Dublin, Ireland mainly for Protestant unmarried mothers and their children, and also for Protestant women convicted of petty theft, prostituti ...

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, the Nursery Rescue Society in

Templeogue Templeogue is a southwestern suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between the River Poddle and River Dodder, and is about halfway from Dublin's centre to the mountains to the south. Geography Location Templeogue is from Dublin city centre t ...

, and Fairfield Children's Home in

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.PACT(Protestant Adoption Society
Council of Irish Adoption Agencies.

References

{{Reflist Church of Ireland mother and baby homes Adoption in Ireland