§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many child care orders were made by each local authority in the Greater London area in 1997. [26048]
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§ Mr. BoatengThe latest figures available are for the year ending 31 March 1996, and are given in the table.
Care orders under the Children Act 1989 made during the year ending 31 March 1996, Greater London Number of Care Orders Authority Interim Full Number of children who became subject to either type of order during year3 Inner London Camden 18 11 28 Greenwich1 33 33 46 Hackney 18 24 36 Hammersmith 15 20 35 Islington 29 16 44 Kensington 24 21 39 Lambeth 36 28 59 Lewisham 38 42 76 Southwark 69 49 94 Tower Hamlets2 n/a n/a n/a Wandsworth 28 19 43 Westminster 48 25 68 City of London 0 0 0 Outer London Barking 7 14 18 Barnet 28 22 32 Bexley 8 1 9 Brent 21 14 33 Bromley 19 28 38 Croydon 61 31 79 Ealing 20 20 34 Enfield 10 12 21 Haringey2 n/a n/a n/a Harrow 11 9 18 Havering 11 4 12 Hillingdon 21 13 21 Hounslow 19 19 33 Kingston upon Thames 3 1 4 Merton 9 10 18 Newham 16 17 31 Redbridge 17 3 18 Richmond upon Thames 9 7 13 Sutton 14 24 32 Waltham Forest 8 12 19 Total: 668 549 1,051 Notes:
1 Estimates for Greenwich have been adjusted to take account of missing data.
2 Figures are not available for Tower Hamlets and Haringey.
3 Where a child became subject to a care order or an interim care order on more than one occasion during the year ended 31 March 1996, the child has only been counted once in the figures in this column.