§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate the numbers of mentally handicapped children under 16 years resident in mental handicap hospitals by age bands in Wales.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsOf the 84 children under 16 who were resident in mental handicap hospitals and units in December 1981, 25 were aged under 10 and 59 were aged between 10 and 15.
§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate the numbers of mentally handicapped children under 16 years in each of the last 10 years in Wales.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThis information is not centrally available.
§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate the numbers of mentally handicapped children under 16 years resident in mental handicap hospitals(a) by total and (b) as a proportion per 100,000 of the population in each of the last 10 years in Wales.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe information is given in the following table:
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Children under 16 resident in Mental Handicap Hospitals and Units Number Rate per 100,000 children 1972* 219 33.9 1973* 205 31.7 1974* 202 31.4 1975 191 28.2 1976 201 30.0 1977 199 30.2 1978 154 23.9 1979 110 17.3 1980 101 16.1 1981 84 13.4 * Figures for these years relate to children under 15.
Discharges of children aged under 16 from mental handicap hospitals and units by recommended after-care 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 Psychiatric Bed in: Hospital 20 16 7 10 7 3 6 Mental Nursing Home 3 — 1 — — — — Convalescent or After-care Home — 1 — 3 1 — 1 Local Authority Residential Accommodation — 10 4 5 3 5 2 Probationary Discharge Leave — — — — — — — Guardianship 3 — — — — — 9 Day-Patient Care 1 4 1 — — 2 — Out-Patient Care 9 26 47 13 7 5 10 Local Authority Social Services Care 75 133 94 70 73 85 69 Other Psychiatric Hospital After-Care 18 — 1 — 11 4 1 Combinations of Outpatient, Day-Patient, Local Authority Social Services and Other Psychiatric Hospital After-Care 28 26 28 44 23 9 14 Non-Psychiatric Hospital Treatment 2 5 2 1 — 4 2 Discharged Against Medical Advice 1 1 1 — — — — G.P. Care — 27 25 53 165 87 64 Special School Care — 37 43 39 46 150 108 No Further Treatment 20 49 152 298 227 282 331 Others and no details 97 96 64 5 7 40 71 All Discharges 277 431 470 541 570 676 688 Now incorporated in Jop 5–2!
§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate the numbers of children under 16 years resident in (a) local authority and (b) registered voluntary homes for mentally handicapped children in each of the last 10 years in Wales.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe available information is given in the following table:
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Year* Children under 16 years resident in local authority homes for the mentally handicapped Children under 16 years resident in voluntary homes for the mentally handicapped 1974 62 Nil 1975 64 Nil 1976 62 Nil 1977 55 Nil 1978 69 Nil 1979 79 Nil 1980 81 Nil 1981 84 Nil 1982 75 Nil *At 31 March.
§ Mr. Strangasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate the number of discharges of mentally handicapped children under 16 years from mental handicap hospitals, together with the places discharged to, for each of the last 10 years in Wales.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe following table relates to discharges by recommended after-care, but the information is only available since 1975.