HC Deb 07 November 1973 vol 863 cc199-204W
Miss Lestor

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers of families and children assisted under Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 in each local

Families Children Per 1,000
Outer London Boroughs Total 7,711 16,919 13
Barking 342 973 22
Barnet 311 644 9
Bexley 617 1,517 24
Brent 402 994 13
Bromley 621 1,642 20
Croydon
Ealing 336 648 8
Enfield 608 1,152 17
Haringey 151 470 7
Harrow 70 121 2
Havering 456 912 12
Hillingdon 139 266 4
Hounslow 324 667 12
Kingston-upon-Thames 307 842 24
Merton 313 604 13
Newham 1,010 1,894 28
Redbridge 382 744 12
Richmond-upon-Thames 330 711 17
Sutton 413 907 20
Waltham Forest 579 1,211 20
Inner London Boroughs Total 15,139 34,839 51
Camden 487 1,148 30
Greenwich 638 1,736 29
Hackney 1,125 2,813 45
Hammersmith 821 1,648 39
Islington 1,482 3,533 64
Kensington 598 1,023 37
Lambeth 2,882 5,263 67
Lewisham 1,266 2,968 4
Southwark 948 1,963 26
Tower Hamlets 443 1,381 31
Wandsworth 3,284 9,342 121
Westminster 1,160 2,014 58
City of London 5 7 17
London South Regional Total 15,345 32,844 18
Dorset 795 1,694 16
Hampshire 3,313 6,123 18
Isle of Wight 209 251 8
Kent 3,256 6,247 15
Surrey 285 450 1
Sussex—East 577 1,560 13
Sussex—West 526 1,457 11
Wiltshire 2,374 7,108 46
Bournemouth 1,121 1,724 54
Brighton 286 682 17
Canterbury 101 222 25
Eastbourne 57 85 6
Hastings 514 782 46
Portsmouth 1,422 3,140 60
Southampton 509 1,319

authority area in England and Wales, and the total number of children assisted in each local authority area per 1,000 population under 18 years of age.

Mr. Alison

Available information for England and Wales at 31st March 1972 is as follows:

Families Children Per 1,000
South Western Regional Total 5,056 10,101 12
Cornwall 590 1,282 13
Devon 396 734 6
Gloucestershire 173 395 2
Isles of Scilly
Somerset 868 1,732 10
Bath 44 87 4
Bristol 1,261 2,303 20
Exeter 223 513 20
Gloucester 308 609 21
Plymouth 948 2,060 30
Torbay 245 386 16
London North Regional Total 9,921[...] 21,307 11
Bedfordshire 400 937 9
Berkshire 964 1,802 10
Buckinghamshire 922 1,545 8
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
Essex 922 2,192 5
Hertfordshire 2,484 5,353 18
Huntingdonshire and Peterborough 1,030 2,129 31
Norfolk 630 1,501 11
Oxfordshire 418 1,256 14
Suffolk—East 250 567 8
Suffolk—West 340 731 14
Great Yarmouth 52 95 7
Ipswich 194 396 10
Luton 457 1,120 19
Norwich 283 631 19
Oxford 341 729 27
Reading
Southend-on-Sea 164 323 8
East Midlands Regional Total 13,614 30,498 25
Derbyshire 1,142 2,723 14
Leicestershire 953 2,264 15
Lincolnshire—Holland 381 1,029 36
Lincolnshire—Kesteven 440 830 17
Lincolnshire—Lindsey 594 1,273 10
Northamptonshire 987 2,390 22
Nottinghamshire 1,295 2,949 14
Rutland 127 324 35
Derby 1,864 4,974 75
Grimsby 360 784 24
Leicester 505 1,303 15
Lincoln 457 982 44
Northampton
Nottingham 4,509 8,673 94
North West Regional Total 17,808 41,469 20
Cheshire 7,103 15,365 43
Lancashire 1,932 3,698 4
Barrow-in-Furness 129 320 17
Birkenhead 57 221 5
Blackburn 153 196 6
Blackpool 349 762 21
Bolton 767 1,981 43
Bootle 483 1,038 37
Burnley 113 306 13
Bury 501 1,249 58
Chester 385 941 50
Liverpool 1,403 4,132 21
Manchester 844 2,316 14
Oldham 296 681 21
Preston 207 406 13
Rochdale 1,103 2,373 85
St. Helens 154 348 11
Salford 156 408 9
Southport 139 262 12
Stockport 775 2,111 50
Wallasey 71 198 6
Warrington 449 1,577 78
Wigan 239 580 24
Families Children Per 1,000
West Midlands Regional Total 11,951 29,322 18
Herefordshire 399 1,016 24
Salop 315 833 8
Staffordshire 983 2,437 10
Warwickshire 1,441 3,756 18
Worcestershire 901 1,886 13
Birmingham 2,697 6,211 20
Burton-on-Trent 105 345 21
Coventry 1,395 3,499 31
Dudley 258 718 12
Solihull 52 90 2
Stoke-on-Trent 560 1,336 17
Walsall 873 2,113 36
Warley 427 1,182 25
West Bromwich 233 680 13
Wolverhampton 1,111 2,783 32
Worcester 201 437 20
Yorkshire Regional Total 6,645 14,637 10
East Riding 239 510 7
North Riding 543 1,069 10
West Riding 816 2,028 3
Barnsley 59 181 7
Bradford 428 966 10
Dewsbury 26 78 4
Doncaster 96 179 7
Halifax 575 1,521 55
Huddersfield 295 760 19
Kingston upon Hull 893 2,269 24
Leeds 1,318 2,847 19
Rotherham 72 191 7
Sheffield 1,000 1,500 10
Wakefield 132 260 15
York 153 278 9
Northern Regional Total 6,791 15,620 17
Cumberland 306 621 9
Durham 865 1,536 6
Northumberland 1,619 3,120 21
Westmorland 68 143 7
Carlisle 268 667 30
Darlington 367 934 37
Gateshead 410 1,089 39
Hartlepool 129 384 11
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 725 1,979 32
South Shields 506 1,190 39
Sunderland 439 1,147 16
Teesside 628 1,860 13
Tynemouth 461 950 44
Wales Total 7,837 17,539 23
Anglesey 201 436 24
Brecon 163 305 22
Caernarvon 305 701 23
Cardigan 57 130 10
Carmarthen 587 1,092 27
Denbigh 240 680 14
Flint 495 1,188 23
Glamorgan 1,902 4,551 21
Merioneth 35 143 16
Monmouth 492 938 9
Montgomery 51 136 11
Pembroke 486 1,013 35
Radnor 2 2
Cardiff 2,209 4,529 57
Merthyr 151 440 30
Newport 229 663 20
Swansea 232 592 12

(a) Figures do not distinguish between those aided by the authority and those aided by a voluntary organisation on its behalf, or between those who received advice and those who were given material assistance.

(b) These tables are compiled from inevitably subjective assessments made by officers recording cases or preparing statistics and should be read with this in mind.

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