§ Mr. SandersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children are in residential care in each local authority area; and how many receive residential care in each local authority. [159417]
§ Margaret HodgeThe number of children in residential care in each local authority at 31 March 2002 is shown in the following table.1542W
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Children Looked After at 31 March 2002 in residential care1,2 Local authority Children Looked After in residential care at 31 March 20022,3 England 8,600 North East Shire counties Durham 65 Northumberland 40 Unitary authorities Darlington 20 Hartlepool 10 Middlesbrough 25 Redcar and Cleveland 15 Stockton-on-Tees 35 Metropolitan districts Gateshead 35 Newcastle upon Tyne 55 North Tyneside 45 South Tyneside 35 Sunderland 80 North West Shire counties Cheshire 45 Cumbria 40 Lancashire 245 Unitary authorities Blackburn and Darwen 50 Blackpool 30 Halton 15 Warrington 20 Metropolitan districts Bolton 40 Bury 20 Manchester 150 Oldham 45 Rochdale 30 Salford 110 Stockport 55 Tameside 25 Trafford 45 Wigan 55 Merseyside Metropolitan districts Knowsley 30 Liverpool 175 Sefton 85 St. Helens 55 Wirral 75 Yorkshire and Humberside Shire counties North Yorkshire 40 Unitary authorities East Riding of Yorkshire 30 Kingston upon Hull 90 North East Lincolnshire 25 North Lincolnshire 30 York 20 Metropolitan districts Barnsley 55 Bradford 100 Calderdale 30 Doncaster 55 Kirkless 50 Leeds 170 Rotherham 45 Sheffield 95 Wakefield 50 1544W
Children Looked After at 31 March 2002 in residential care1,2 Local authority Children Looked After in residential care at 31 March 20022,3 East Midlands Shire counties Derbyshire 75 Leicestershire 35 Lincolnshire 55 Northamptonshire 95 Nottinghamshire 45 Unitary authorities Derby 45 Leicester 50 Nottingham 75 Rutland — West Midlands Shire counties Shropshire 30 Staffordshire 70 Warwickshire 35 Worcestershire 55 Unitary authorities Herefordshire 15 Stoke-on-Trent 55 Telford and Wrekin 35 Metropolitan districts Birmingham 305 Coventry 55 Dudley 45 Sandwell 50 Solihull 30 Walsall 65 Wolverhampton 35 South West Shire counties Cornwall 70 Devon 70 Dorset 25 Gloucestershire 60 Isles of Scilly 0 Somerset 65 Wiltshire 40 Unitary authorities Bath and North East Somerset 15 Bournemouth 35 Bristol 70 North Somerset 15 Plymouth 40 Poole 15 South Gloucestershire 20 Swindon 25 Torbay 30 Eastern Shire counties Bedfordshire 70 Cambridgeshire 55 Essex 175 Hertfordshire 115 Norfolk 145 Suffolk 100 Unitary authorities Luton 25 Peterborough 35 Southend 25 Thurrock 25
Children Looked After at 31 March 2002 in residential care1,2 Local authority Children Looked After in residential care at 31 March 20022,3 London Inner London Camden 65 City of London 0 Greenwich 95 Hackney 70 Hammersmith and Fulham 55 Islington 125 Kensington and Chelsea 45 Lambeth 185 Lewisham 125 Southwark 90 Tower Hamlets 80 Wandsworth 45 Westminster 35 Outer London Barking and Dagenham 115 Barnet 50 Bexley 10 Brent 75 Bromley 70 Croydon 70 Baling 70 Enfield 65 Haringey 155 Harrow 25 Havering 35 Hillingdon 70 Hounslow 50 Kingston Upon Thames 25 Merton 20 Newham 65 Redbridge 30 Richmond upon Thames 40 Sutton 15 Waltham Forest 100 South East Shire counties Buckinghamshire 35 East Sussex 40 Hampshire 120 Kent 125 Oxfordshire 80 Surrey 130 West Sussex 115 Unitary authorities Bracknell Forest 20 Brighton and Hove 25 Isle of Wight 15 Medway Towns 30 Milton Keynes 40 West Berkshire 20 Portsmouth 35 Reading 25 Slough 20 Southampton 20 Windsor and Maidenhead 15 Wokingham 10 1 Residential care includes secure units, homes and hostels, residential schools, and other residential settings. 2 Figures in this table exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements. 3 Figures over 1,000 are rounded to the nearest 100. Figures between one and five have been suppressed. All other figures are rounded to the nearest five. Source:
Children Looked After by local authorities, year ending 31 March 2002.