PRIOR to 1998, Notts County Council was the lead authority for looking after children in care across the city and county.
This changed when the city council became a unitary authority, taking on responsibility for care services in Nottingham.
From the end of the 1990s there was a move towards reducing the number of large children's homes and placing youngsters with foster families or in smaller residential units instead.
This was crystallised in 2006 when an inspection by the Commission for Social Care found that almost a third of children in care in the city did not feel safe.
A large-scale reorganisation of children's homes followed.
Beechwood, Mappperley
The home was owned by the county council from 1973 to 1998, then the city council from 1998 to 2006. Closed 2006. Still derelict and up for sale.
Ranskill Gardens, Bestwood:
Owned by county council from 1974 to 1998. The city council from 1998 to 2011, when it closed. Is currently boarded up.
Bracken House, Bulwell:
Owned by Nottingham Corporation from June 1968 to April 1974. It is now private flats. It was then owned by the county council until October 1995 when it was sold to a plastering company.
Wood Nook, Beechdale:
Owned by the county council from 1974 to 1998. Owned by city council from 1998. It was sold last year and has since been demolished.
Risley Hall:
Risley Hall, at Risley, near Long Eaton, was owned by Notts County Council from 1942 until the mid-1980s when it was sold to a leisure company. The building is now a hotel and spa.