HC Deb 21 March 1978 vol 946 cc495-7W
Mrs. Chalker

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many full-time equivalent occupational therapists are employed in each local authority social services department; and how many vacancies for occupational therapists exist.

Mr. Deakins

The whole-time equivalent numbers of qualified occupational therapists are given below. The numbers of vacancies are not collected by my department.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS IN LOCAL AUTHORITY SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENTS
(whole-time equivalent at 30th September 1976)
Northern
Cleveland
Cumbria 3.7
Durham 6.5
Northumberland
Gateshead 1.0
Newcastle 7.0
N. Tyneside
S Tyneside
Sunderland 2.0
Yorkshire and Humberside
Humberside 3.5
North Yorkshire 2.0
Barnsley
Doncaster
Rotherham
Sheffield 3.8
Bradford 8.0
Calderdale
Kirklees
Leeds
Wakefield
North Western
Cheshire 19.4
Lancashire
Bolton 2.0
Bury
Manchester 5.0
Oldham
Rochdale 3.1
Salford

North Western
Stockport 4.0
Tameside 3.5
Trafford 0.4
Wigan
Knowsley 1.0
Liverpool 19.6
Sefton 2.0
St. Helens 3.0
Wirral 4.0
West Midlands
Hereford and Worcestershire
Salop 3.3
Staffordshire 1.0
Warwickshire 4.0
Birmingham 11.9
Coventry 4.0
Dudley 1.0
Sandwell 0.5
Solihull
Walsall
Wolverhampton 1.0
East Midlands
Derbyshire 15.6
Leicestershire 9.9
Lincolnshire 4.3
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire 10.4
London North
Bedfordshire
Berkshire 14.1
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire 8.6
Essex 6.0
Hertfordshire 22.9
Norfolk 7.5
Oxfordshire 5.0
Suffolk 6.1
Inner London
Camden 4.0
Greenwich
Hackney 1.0
Hammersmith
Islington 5.0
Kensington & Chelsea 3.0
Lambeth 8.5
Lewisham
Southwark 1.0
Tower Hamlets 5.0
Wandsworth 7.5
Westminster 5.0
City of London
Outer London
Barking
Barnet 9.0
Bexley
Brent 11.1
Bromley 7.0
Croydon 1.0
Ealing 15.0
Enfield 5.0
Haringey 5.0
Harrow 8.1
Havering
Hillingdon 15.0
Hounslow 5.6
Kingston-upon-Thames
Merton 8.0
Newham 4.0
Redbridge 1.0
Richmond-upon-Thames 1.0

Outer London
Sutton 2.7
Waltham Forest 5.0
Southern
Dorset 7.4
Hampshire 14.5
Isle of Wight
Kent 20.0
Surrey 15.0
E. Sussex 11.7
W Sussex
Wiltshire 10.0
South Western
Avon 12.5
Cornwall 5.6
Devon 29.1
Gloucestershire 13.6
Somerset 7.3
Isles of Scilly
England Total 531.8

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