Scatter Cottage (1970 - 1980)

From

1970s

To

1980s

Categories

Type of 'care'

Alternative Names

• Scatter Home

Location

Western Australia

Scatter cottage was a term used to describe a model of out-of-home care in the 1970s and 1980s. A scatter cottage was a house that was run by an institution but was not on the same property as the main institutional buildings. Usually, up to 10 children lived in a scatter cottage with houseparents.