§ Mr. Juddasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many additional fieldwork and residential staff, how much more residential accommodation and how many extra field work and residential work training places will be needed for the implementation of the White Paper, Children in Trouble; what the total cost will be; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Elystan MorganThe full implementation of these proposals would require about 1,000 additional field staff: including supporting staff, the annual cost 295W would be about £2.4 million. I estimate that the number of students qualifying as field staff will increase from 390 in 1968–69 to 715 in 1970–71, at a cost in 1970–71 of about £750,000. The proposals in the White Paper do not require additional residential accommodation or staff. Alterations and additions to accommodation, and improvements in the recruitment and training of staff, are needed on other grounds.