Mum in Fulwood Cottage Homes 1934 to...?

OK, so there's me, then my parents, grandparents, great grandparents...you get the picture, and you know that I've been looking at Pearl, then Sam, both from my mother's side of the family. Mum knows very little as she was orphaned at such a young age, but she thinks that she had grandparents and Aunties and Uncles still living quite nearby when she was taken into the orphanage - called Fulwood Cottage Homes - in Sheffield.
This seems such a strange thing for the authorities to have done, but mum is insistent that she, and her brothers and sisters, were all put into the homes because the extended family would have had to split the kids between them. Unbelievable. I just can't get my head around that piece of information.
I've just been trying to find out more by looking at chat rooms and forums but they seem to be out of date. Found some pictures of the place from the 'olden days' and it looks as if the women working there wore nurse's uniforms.The children seem fairly well dressed in the pictures - in the picture I have of my mum she is dressed in a plain smock type of thing. Hair looks to be basin cut. She thinks she's about eight in that picture. She's smiling in it, so that's something.
My mother remembers they had a house mother and house father. She has some scarring on the bridge of her nose which is from the time she pulled a huge kettle of boiling water onto her. It was her birthday and she said she had been given a rag doll. She was clutching the doll and trying to get the kettle off the range at the same time. (It was her job to see to the kettle for some reason.) Mum reckons it was her sixth birthday? I think she would have been in the homes for four or five months by then if that was the case. It seems unlikely to me that they'd have let a six year old near a kettle but there you go.
She remembers sitting at the window at night and looking over towards the lights of Sheffield.
She said her brothers regularly ran away but they'd get scared by the time they reached the fields - the cows put them off going any further. I suspect the boys were walloped - there certainly must have been some reason for them to run away so often.
How did it turn out for them all?
Well, that's to find out. I need to get names, dates and destinations from my mum. Where did all her siblings go and what happened to her older relatives?