Historically, residential care has been called out-of-home care, substitute care and alternative care (ie not living at home with parents). Children and young people have been placed in residential facilities variously called orphanages, institutions, children's Homes and training, reform or industrial schools. Up until the 1970s, when group Homes came into existence, these residential facilities were generally medium to large, institutional operations. Children usually slept in dormitories, attended the local school or one that was on-campus, and ate together in a communal dining-room. Even where the cottage parent model was preferred, family-size groups were the rare exception rather than the norm for most of the 20th century.
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