HC Deb 05 August 1975 vol 897 c179W
41. Mr. Parkinson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will make a statement on children presently accommodated in adult wards of sub-normality hospitals.

Dr. Owen

Cases in which children are accommodated in adult wards in mental handicap hospitals usually occur because of a local shortage of hospital and other residential facilities for both children and adults. Additional places are, of course, dependent on the extent to which additional resources can be made available.