HC Deb 12 April 1972 vol 834 cc194-5W
Mr. Edward Taylor

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the work of the children's panels.

Mr. Gordon Campbell

The system of children's hearings has, in general, been working well during its first year. I should like to pay a warm tribute to all those who have contributed to this successful beginning, and, in particular, to the panel members who have given so much of their time to this important public service. I have recently appointed about 400 panel members in addition to the 850 appointed initially.

The provisional statistics for 1971 are as follows:

TABLE B
PROVISIONAL STATISTICS OF CHILDREN APPEARING BEFORE HEARINGS 15TH APRIL, 1971 TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1971
Number of Reports classified by Age of Child and Disposal made by Hearing
Initial Disposal of Case by Hearing
Supervision requirement made
to reside in a named residential establishment to submit to supervision with conditions Col. (1)
Age Group Supervision requirement not made Without conditions With conditions without with conditions residential other both Total (1) All disposals (2) as percentage of Col. (2)
Less than 8 12 20 7 36 15 20 4 102 114 89.5
8 … … 38 12 8 52 7 15 — 94 132 71.2
9 … … 62 24 8 67 6 44 2 151 213 71.0
10 … 93 31 13 114 16 69 2 245 338 72.5
11 … 130 45 12 187 18 71 4 337 467 72.5
12 … 189 64 35 209 28 132 8 476 665 71.6
13 … 250 131 50 315 31 203 7 737 987 74.7
14 … 376 159 93 463 36 298 15 1,064 1,440 73.9
15 … 445 119 72 398 36 232 17 874 1,319 66.3
16 and over 9 3 2 5 — 4 — 14 23 60.7
All ages … 1,604 608 300 1,846 193 1,088 59 4,094 5,698 71.8
Boys number 1,457 529 236 1,637 139 924 41 3,506 4,963 70.6
As percent age of all boys … 29.3 10.6 4.7 32.9 2.8 18.6 0.8 70.6 100 —
Girls number 147 79 64 209 54 164 18 588 735 80.0
As percent age of all girls … 20.0 10.7 8.7 28.4 7.3 22.3 2.4 80.0 100 —