HC Deb 22 April 1971 vol 815 cc438-43W
56. Mr. Meacher

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much cash assistance has been given to families under Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1963, by each local authority for each year since the passing of the Act.

Mr. Alison

Total expenditure under Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 returned by local authorities in England was as follows:

1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69
Herefordshire 405 935 812 838
Hertfordshire 1,941 5,384 4,285
Huntingdon and Peterborough 585 663 359 582
Kent 221 1,793 3,533 8,170
Lancashire 3,726 3,783 7,951 5,085
Leicestershire 597 1,503 1,575 1,173
Lincolnshire (Holland) 64 211 181 296
Lincolnshire (Kesteven) 272 786 632
Lincolnshire (Lindsey) 344 641 743 1,047
Norfolk 796 850 918
Northamptonshire 287 207 578 719
Northumberland 342 861 838 768
Nottinghamshire 71 169 1,407 1,696
Oxfordshire 3,337 2,222 1,729
Rutland 19 47 31 33
Shropshire 39 169 216 144
Somerset 1,886 3,445 4,231 5,651
Staffordshire 1,307 1,597 1,183 1,409
Suffolk, East 262 277 648 847
Suffolk, West 202 354 175
Surrey 1,273 1,165 2,446 2,617
Sussex, East 429 1,324 2,235
Sussex, West 1,118 1,522 1,548
Warwickshire 663 1,121 1,205 2,011
Westmorland 167 310 1,074 869
Wiltshire 493 925 2,011 2,046
Worcestershire 231 876 80 3,361
Yorkshire (East Riding) 82 11 127 79
Yorkshire (North Riding) 414 1,826 1,362 1,016
Yorkshire (West Riding) 833 764 1,694 2,409
COUNTY BOROUGHS
Barnsley 163 227 349 427
Barrow-in-Furness 7 50 46 47
Bath 212 238 219 362
Birkenhead 218 275 703 660
Birmingham 2,363 2,588 2,357 2,140
Blackburn
Blackpool 212 250 541 437
Bolton 139 227 395 184
Bootle 316 103 141 120
Bournemouth 398 782 695
Bradford 216 699 697 933
Brighton 241 803 920 1,461
Bristol 2,120 3,515 3,255 1,963
Burnley 127 162 120 232
Burton-upon-Trent 88 6 204
Bury 48 44 51
Canterbury 8 43 31 45
Carlisle 447 691 887 1,251
Chester 25 270 347
Coventry 3,228 4,711 5,250 5,830
Darlington 104 344 356 655
Derby 182 505 448 814
Dewsbury 30 78 72 265
Doncaster 97 43 91 206
Dudley 126 370 617 559
Eastbourne 47 244 128 66
Exeter 82 220 518 497
Gateshead 80 549 337 364
Gloucester 271 216 464 157
Great Yarmouth 13 23
Grimsby 330 247 310 482
Halifax 31 692 381 397
Hartlepool 1 66 62 80
Hastings 13 73 196 309
1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69
Huddersfield 73 176 154 62
Ipswich 160 383 715
Kingston-upon-Hull 76 57 163 57
Leeds 330 280 210 443
Leicester 671 1,282 1,463
Lincoln 17 61 253 82
Liverpool 998 3,175 3,654 2,790
Luton 260 510 580 575
Manchester 911 1,486 2,639 1,637
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 90 848 1,037 1,943
Northampton 46 5 64 108
Norwich 473 458 1,050 138
Nottingham 71 146 325 261
Oldham 20 38 69
Oxford 649 1,260 2,302 2,290
Plymouth 822 696 889 1,964
Portsmouth 600 798
Preston 273 444 535 846
Reading 585 727 1,024 1,180
Rochdale 219 199 415 941
Rotherham 67 69 401 235
St. Helens 21 19 24 123
Salford 618 369 138
Sheffield 681 1,849 3,797 2,997
Solihull 93 1 12 157
Southampton 638 609 1,549 1,100
Southend-on-Sea 42 193 899 828
Southport 158 158 153 269
South Shields 35 114 289 340
Stockport 266 196 270 285
Stoke-on-Trent 221 333 391 342
Sunderland 321 137 123 96
Teesside 65 419
Torbay 591
Tynemouth 177 563 638 573
Wakefield 55 66 69 88
Wallasey 178 223 267 346
Walsall 101 379 75 248
Warley 145 105 227 736
Warrington 83 41 322 246
West Bromwich 144 299 803 1,105
Wigan 122 232 358 432
Wolverhampton 655 287 165
Worcester 98 133 588 510
York 65 5 35 474
LONDON BOROUGHS
Barking 693 630 896
Barnet 535 2,873 4,148 6,551
Bexley 101 91 210 151
Brent 581 925 1,501 2,848
Bromley 606 1,656 2,940 1,442
Camden 4,738 13,078
Croydon 354 649 813
Ealing 3,086
Enfield 225 408 858 2,013
Greenwich 792 1,612 3,000 3,797
Hackney 1,352 3,419 4,624
Hammersmith 920 3,039 4,044 3,825
Haringey 554 1,097 3,333 8,353
Harrow 30 12 37 99
Havering 246 588 738 711
Hillingdon 57 180 321 267
Hounslow 259 672 732 864
Islington 1,487 2,282 2,598 4,697
Kensington/Chelsea 1,451 2,485 2,416 4,380
Kingston 138 527 381 416
Lambeth 1,278 3,122 3,581 3,712
Lewisham 1,724 5,743 8,199 7,562
Merton 188 588 828 1,092
Newham 127 141 1,033 2,611
Red bridge 182 500 666
Richmond 382 525 202 678
Southwark 2,022 3,525 5,338 10,456
Sutton 335 732 1,691 1,775
Tower Hamlets 4,597 7,552 5,732 5,635
Waltham Forest 263 381 248
Wandsworth 3,059 4,036 7,087
Westminster 737 856 1,233 2,450
Totals 66,626 135,072 188,806 244,885
NOTES:
(a) Figures for 1964–65 and 1969–70 onwards are not available.
(b) Blanks indicate information not available.
(c) Blackburn are known to have undertaken all their preventive work with families under other statutory powers; and other authorities to have used such powers in addition to section 1.
(d) Torbay became a children's authority on 1st April, 1968.