Congregate Care (1940 - 1970)

From

1940?

To

1970?

Location

Victoria

Congregate care was a term used to describe large institutions in which children were housed in dormitories, usually divided by age and gender, under the supervision of rostered staff. In the post-war period it was gradually replaced by campus cottage or scattered family group homes where there was a greater possibility of siblings being able to be housed together.