§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will publish figures for the number of children in care who have come from (a) one-parent and (b) two-parent, families, on the basis of information stored in the career document now held by his Department for each child in local authority care;
(2) who will be entitled to access to the career document now held by his Department for each child in local authority care;
(3) if the information on the career document held by his Department for each child in local authority will be computerised;
(4) what is the purpose of the career document now held centrally by his Department for each child in local authority care; and when this document was first introduced.
§ Sir George YoungThe Department does not hold a career document on each child in local authority care. Statistical returns giving the characteristics of each child in care have been sent to the Department annually since March 1977 but these do not identify the children, and do not indicate whether the child is from a one-parent or two-parent family.