HC Deb 15 July 1980 vol 988 cc509-10W
Mr. Thomas Cox

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what criteria are used by a local council in allocating a home help;

(2) what jobs a home help is allowed to do when allocated to an elderly person.

Sir George Young

The duties of home helps and the criteria for allocating them are settled by individual authorities according to local circumstances, and are not laid down centrally.

Mr. Thomas Cox

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of home helps employed in each of the 32 London boroughs and the agreed establishment of each borough.

Sir George Young

Information about agreed home helps establishments is not available centrally.

The last year for which comprehensive figures of the number of home helps employed by London boroughs are available ended on 30 September 1977. These are given below in whole-time equivalents.

Barking 185.0
Barnet 183.7
Bexley 207.0
Brent 179.3
Bromley 191.9
Camden 373.0
Croydon 163.6
Ealing 220.7
Enfield 197.2
Greenwich 366.9
Hackney 390.2
Hammersmith 245.9
Haringey 400.8
Southwark 414.5
Tower Hamlets 212.8
Wandsworth 400.7
Harrow 120.5
Havering 205.3
Hillingdon 205.0
Hounslow 113.8
Islington 209.5
Kensington 132.0
Kingston upon Thames 67.5
Lambeth 413.0
Lewisham 452.0
Merton 219.9
Newham 304.3
Redbridge 180.6
Richmond-on-Thames 57.0
Sutton 112.5
Waltham Forest 302.0
Westminster 245.0