§
Mr. John Patten
There may be a number of reasons for a child being taken into care of which homelessness, although a contibutory factor is not identified as the specific cause. Following is information relating to 31 March 1982, unless otherwise indicated, for the numbers of children in care where the specific cause was that their family had been made homeless, for each local authority, each metropolitan county, the Greater London council and England.
| Number |
| Non-metropolitan counties |
|
| Cleveland |
4 |
| Cumbria |
9 |
| Durham |
23 |
| Northumberland |
9 |
| Humberside |
20 |
| North Yorkshire |
6 |
| Cheshire |
22 |
| Lancashire |
38 |
| Hereford and Worcester |
14 |
61W
| Number |
| Shropshire (1983) |
5 |
| Staffordshire |
36 |
| Warwickshire (1983) |
6 |
| Derbyshire |
11 |
| Leicestershire |
5 |
| Lincolnshire |
1 |
| Northamptonshire (1983) |
1 |
| Nottinghamshire (1983) |
11 |
| Bedfordshire |
22 |
| Berkshire |
17 |
| Buckinghamshire |
3 |
| Cambridgeshire |
5 |
| Essex |
27 |
| Hertfordshire |
14 |
| Norfolk (1983) |
2 |
| Oxfordshire (1983) |
6 |
| Suffolk |
9 |
| Dorset (1983) |
9 |
| Hampshire |
58 |
| Isle of Wight |
1 |
| Kent (1981) |
35 |
| Surrey |
8 |
| East Sussex |
14 |
| West Sussex (1983) |
8 |
| Wiltshire |
18 |
| Avon (1983) |
9 |
| Cornwall |
1 |
| Devon |
25 |
| Gloucestershire |
4 |
| Isles of Scilly |
— |
| Somerset |
8 |
| Greater London |
(113) |
| Camden (1981) |
2 |
| Greenwich |
5 |
| Hackney |
6 |
| Hammersmith |
13 |
| Islington (1979) |
— |
| Kensington |
10 |
| Lambeth |
3 |
| Lewisham |
4 |
| Southwark |
4 |
| Tower Hamlets (1980) |
24 |
| Wandsworth (1981) |
3 |
| Westminster |
5 |
| City of London (1983) |
— |
| Barking |
— |
| Barnet (1983) |
— |
| Bexley (1983) |
— |
| Brent |
5 |
| Bromley |
4 |
| Croydon |
2 |
| Ealing (1983) |
6 |
| Enfield |
— |
| Haringey |
6 |
| Harrow (1983) |
1 |
| Havering (1983) |
— |
| Hillingdon |
— |
| Hounslow (1983) |
5 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames (1983) |
1 |
| Merton (1983) |
— |
| Newham |
1 |
| Redbridge |
1 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames (1983) |
— |
| Sutton (1983) |
2 |
| Waltham Forest |
— |
| Greater Manchester metropolitan county |
(59) |
| Bolton |
4 |
| Bury |
2 |
| Manchester (1983) |
12 |
| Oldham |
7 |
| Rochdale |
4 |
| Salford (1983) |
9 |
| Stockport |
9 |
| Tameside |
1 |
| Trafford |
4 |
62W
| Number |
| Wigan (1983) |
7 |
| West Yorkshire metropolitan county |
(49) |
| Bradford |
26 |
| Calderdale (1983) |
2 |
| Kirklees |
10 |
| Leeds |
7 |
| Wakefield (1983) |
4 |
| West Midlands metropolitan county |
(47) |
| Birmingham |
3 |
| Coventry |
16 |
| Dudley |
8 |
| Sandwell |
9 |
| Solihull |
— |
| Walsall (1983) |
7 |
| Wolverhampton |
4 |
| Merseyside metropolitan county |
(44) |
| Knowsley |
8 |
| Liverpool (1983) |
18 |
| Sefton (1983) |
6 |
| St. Helens |
6 |
| Wirral |
6 |
| Metropolitan county Tyne and Wear |
(36) |
| Gateshead |
2 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
13 |
| North Tyneside |
10 |
| South Tyneside |
7 |
| Sunderland |
4 |
| Metropolitan county South Yorkshire |
(38) |
| Barnsley |
11 |
| Doncaster |
4 |
| Rotherham |
5 |
| Sheffield |
18 |
| England |
910 |