§ Mr. Chris Smithasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what are the latest available annual figures for the number of children received into care by reason of homelessness; and if he will give this information for England as a whole, and for each local authority area;
(2) what are the latest available figures for the number of children in local authority care where the reason for their admission into care was homelessness; and if he will give this information for England as a whole and for each local authority area.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe latest annual figures available are for the year ending 31 March 1984. The 1985 figures will be available shortly. A child may be taken into care for a number of reasons of which homelessness may be a contributory factor although not identified as a specific cause in the statistics. Information available on children in care where the specific cause is that their family has been made homeless is given in the following table:
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Children in care because of homelessness (due to eviction or other cause) Number as at 31 March 1984 Number admitted during year ending 31 March 1984 ENGLAND 713 244 Local authorities: Cleveland 4 0 Cumbria 6 0 Durham 12 4 Northumberland 4 6 Gateshead 3 0 Newcastle upon Tyne 11 8 North Tyneside 7 0 South Tyneside g 3 Sunderland 3 0 Humberside 9 10 North Yorkshire 10 11 Barnsley 12 3 Doncaster 3 3 Rotherham 2 1 Sheffield 16 1 Bradford 23 18 Calderdale 2 1 Kirklees 9 8 Leeds 3 3 Wakefield 12 1 Cheshire 16 5 Lancashire 21 10 Bolton 2 2 Bury 2 0 Manchester 13 3 Oldham 0 0 Rochdale 5 1 Salford 8 4 Stockport 7 6 Tameside1 0 0 Trafford 3 0 Wigan 6 0 Knowsley 4 4 Liverpool 25 2 Sefton 7 2 St. Helens 5 4 Wirral 5 2 Hereford and Worcester 7 0 Salop 15 2 Staffordshire 21 4 Warwickshire 8 0 Birmingham 7 9 Coventry 11 5 Dudley 6 0 Sandwell 3 1 Solihull 1 1 Walsall 6 3 Wolverhampton 4 2 Derbyshire 2 0 Leicestershire 4 0 Lincolnshire 5 3 Northamptonshire 9 1 Nottinghamshire 12 7 Bedfordshire 15 6 Berkshire 14 1 Buckinghamshire 2 0 Cambridgeshire 6 4 Essex 15 4 Hertfordshire 12 2 Norfolk 2 0 Oxfordshire 4 6 Suffolk 8 0 Camden 0 0 Greenwich 0 0 Hackney 5 0 Hammersmith 7 2 Islington1 0 2 Kensington 8 1 Lambeth 2 0
Number as at 31 March 1984 Number admitted during year ending 31 March 1984 Lewisham 1 0 Southwark 2 1 Tower Hamlets1 24 1 Wandsworth 5 4 Westminster 4 0 City of London 0 0 Barking 0 2 Barnet 0 0 Bexley 0 2 Brent 3 0 Bromley 4 0 Croydon 5 7 Ealing 5 0 Enfield 0 0 Haringey 5 2 Harrow 1 0 Havering 0 0 Hillingdon 0 1 Hounslow 2 1 Kingston-upon-Thames 0 1 Merton 0 0 Newham 0 0 Redbridge 0 0 Richmond-upon-Thames 0 0 Sutton 2 3 Waltham Forest 0 1 Dorset 13 2 Hampshire 40 2 Isle of Wight 1 1 Kent 13 4 Surrey 3 3 East Sussex 9 1 West Sussex 8 0 Wiltshire 13 0 Avon 12 8 Cornwall 0 0 Devon 20 3 Gloucestershire 5 2 Isles of Scilly2 Somerset 4 0 1 Estimated from information for earlier years. 2 Include with Cornwall (LA 902)