‘Family Group Home’ is the name given to a practice where small groups of children are accommodated in buildings that approximate the size and form of a normal family home.

In 1958 the shortcomings of a large-scale institutional care had become apparent and a house adjoining Kildonan was purchased and opened as a family group home. This provided care for up to eight children supervised by a cottage mother and father.

• Kildonan, Burwood (1937 – c. 1961), Find and Connect
• M.Robinson, One Hundred Years of Caring