HC Deb 01 December 1977 vol 940 cc347-8W
Mrs. Chalker

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services which local authorities are making direct payments to child minders and at what average cost per week.

Mr. Deakins

In returns relating to 31st March 1976*, the following local authorities in England indicated they placed children with child minders and paid for the attendance.

County Councils:

  • Avon
  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Dorset
  • East Sussex
  • Essex
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Hereford and Worcester
  • Hertfordshire
  • Humberside
  • Isle of Wight
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Norfolk
  • North Yorkshire
  • Northamptonshire
    • 348
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Suffolk
  • Surrey
  • Warwickshire
  • West Sussex
  • Wiltshire

Metropolitan District Councils:

  • Doncaster
  • Liverpool
  • Sheffield
  • Sunderland

London Boroughs:

  • Barnet
  • Bexley
  • Brent
  • Bromley
  • Camden
  • Croydon
  • Enfield
  • Hackney
  • Hammersmith
  • Haringey
  • Harrow
  • Hounslow
  • Islington
  • Kensington
  • Kingston-upon-Thames
  • Lambeth
  • Lewisham
  • Merton
  • Redbridge
  • Sutton
  • Tower Hamlets
  • Wandsworth
  • Westminster

*This information is provisional.

Details of other payments and of costs are not held centrally.