§ Mr. Berminghamasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide statistics for each of the local authority social service departments in England and Wales which indicate (a) the percentage of their budget spent on services for mentally ill people, (b) the number of day centre places they provide for mentally ill people, and (c) the number of approved social workers at present designated as such; how many are envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the present position regarding approved social work.
§ Mr. Whitney[pursuant to his reply, 17 February 1986, column 70]: Budgetary information is not available in the form requested, but an indication of spending by most authorities on some services for mentally ill people is contained in the annual publication "Personal Social Services Statistics" produced by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. A copy is in the Library.
Information is not held centrally on the numbers of approved social workers appointed by local authorities. 391W The number to be appointed is for individual authorities to decide. The Department is currently discussing with other interested parties the arrangements for training and appointing approved social workers.
The table sets out the available information for England at 31 March 1985 on day centre places provided by authorities in their own centres for mentally ill people and through voluntary and other organisations. No details are available on the number of mentally ill people using places in local authority day centres catering for a mixed clientele, but on a proportionate basis we estimate about 2,400 further places are used in this way. Data for Wales are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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Day centre places for mentally ill people in England at 31 March 1985 Authority Places in local authority day centres for mentally ill people Places in centres provided by voluntary and other organisations Cleveland 100 360 Cumbria 6 12 Durham 0 0 Northumberland 0 0 Gateshead 35 0 Newcastle upon Tyne 140 0 North Tyneside 20 0 South Tyneside 0 0 Sunderland 24 0 Humberside 120 0 North Yorkshire 30 0 Barnsley 0 0 Doncaster 40 0 Rotherham 30 0 Sheffield 110 0 Bradford 75 0 Calderdale 0 0 Kirklees 48 0 Leeds 140 0 Wakefield 0 0 Cheshire 30 88 Lancashire 45 47 Bolton 40 0 Bury 0 0 Manchester 120 39 Oldham 50 19 Rochdale 0 0 Salford 50 0 Stockport 0 25 Tameside 0 0 Trafford 0 0 Wigan 24 0 Knowsley 70 0 Liverpool 112 120 Sefton 12 0 St. Helens 40 0 Wirral 30 0 Hereford and Worcester 190 0 Salop 20 0 Staffordshire 119 0 Warwickshire 0 139 Birmingham 120 0 Coventry 100 50 Dudley 70 0 Sandwell 50 0 Solihull 25 0
Authority Places in local authority day centres for mentally ill people Places in centres provided by voluntary and other organisations Walsall 30 30 Wolverhampton 50 0 Derbyshire 40 0 Leicestershire 85 0 Lincolnshire 32 0 Northamptonshire 0 0 Nottinghamshire 212 0 Bedfordshire 0 0 Berkshire 0 30 Buckinghamshire 0 20 Cambridgeshire 56 21 Essex 44 90 Hertfordshire 0 0 Norfolk 0 0 Oxfordshire 0 0 Suffolk 0 0 Dorset 47 57 Hampshire 50 0 Isle of Wight 60 3 Kent 20 n/a Surrey 30 0 East Sussex 215 2 West Sussex 0 0 Wiltshire 40 0 Avon 75 154 Cornwall 0 0 Devon 30 0 Gloucestershire 0 0 Isles of Scilly 20 0 Somerset 0 0 Camden 82 N/A Greenwich 0 1 Hackney 80 0 Hammersmith 59 0 Islington 100 0 Kensington 79 0 Lambeth 135 0 Lewisham 195 4 Southwark 85 0 Tower Hamlets 145 0 Wandsworth 65 0 Westminster 80 2 City of London 0 2 Barking 50 0 Barnet 80 1 Bexley 22 0 Brent 95 0 Bromley 0 0 Croydon 100 0 Ealing 65 0 Enfield 0 5 Haringey 30 0 Harrow 100 0 Havering 0 0 Hillingdon 30 0 Hounslow 45 0 Kingston-upon-Thames 30 N/A Merton 51 0 Newham 165 0 Redbridge 0 0 Richmond-upon-Thames 75 0 Sutton 0 0 Waltham Forest 0 1