HC Deb 16 June 1966 vol 729 c308W
Mr. Moonman

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many local authorities there are in the country with the same ratio or less of professional child care staff per departmental caseload than have the Dorset Children's Department.

Miss Bacon

This information is not readily available, but on 31st March, 1965 the ratio in Dorset was one child care officer to twenty-five children in care, compared with an average of one to thirty-three for England and Wales.