I think Steve and Roz actually both make good points. Louise House was open from the 1880s until the 1930s as an "industrial home for girls".

A little bit of information from the life of Janus Korczak:

Korczak then went on, inspired in part by his visit to London, to run orphanages in Warsaw, including in the Warsaw Ghetto. He wrote the 'Rights of the Child' which formed the basis of the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

In my view the orphanages in Forest Hill were inspirational to one of the most inspirational pediatrician and campaigner on Childrens' Rights. In this sense there can be no doubt that they were progressive institutions.

However, 'as I understand it', by the 1930s such institutions were being phased out and it was not reopened as an industrial home after the war. I did overhear one old lady once say that she had known some of the girls who attended Louise House when it was an Industrial Home and felt that the girls who had attended would be furious at the idea that this institution should be honoured in any way. Of course this is just hearsay, and I wish I had got the contact details for the lady who made this statement as she clearly knows a different side to Louise House. We should accept that history can be remarkably subjective and very much depenant on your own place in history.