HC Deb 26 February 1987 vol 111 cc411-7W
Mr. Meacher

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what were the number of whole-time equivalent (a) home helps and (b) social workers in each local authority, and per 1,000 population over 65 years each year since 1982.

Mr. Newton

[pursuant to his reply, 21 January 1987, c. 623]: The numbers of whole-time equivalent home helps and social workers in each authority are published in tablet of "Staff of Local Authority Social Services Departments, 30 September" for 1982, 1983, and 1984 (S/F 83/1, S/F 84/1, S/F 85/1 respectively), copies of which are in the Library. The figures for 1985 are given in table 1

The whole-time equivalent home helps and social workers per thousand population aged 65 years and over in each local authority for 1982–85 are given in tables 2 and 3.

Table 1
Home helps and social workers, expressed as whole-time equivalents, by local authority, 19851 2
Home helps Social workers
Cleveland 616.0 270.1
Cumbria 522.6 215.0

Home helps Social workers
Durham 823.7 249.4
Northunberland 450.0 137.9
Gateshead 333.5 141.0
Newcastle upon Tyne 676.0 299.0
North Tyneside 289.7 132.0
South Tyneside 209.0 100.0
Sunderland 633.5 153.4
Humberside 1,104.3 334.5
North Yorkshire 695.0 269.0
Barnsley 357.0 89.5
Doncaster 466.0 131.0
Rotherham 402.3 128.5
Sheffield 1,076.5 416.5
Bradford 725.5 327.8
Calderdale 329.9 92.9
Kirklees 534.9 180.3
Leeds 1,065.8 414.4
Wakefield 358.9 210.0
Cheshire 863.3 400.4
Lancashire 1,585.3 675.3
Bolton 354.0 137.0
Bury 225.4 95.0
Manchester 779.0 449.0
Oldham 354.0 113.0
Rochdale 325.9 127.0
Salford 343.6 155.0
Stockport 308.0 157.8
Tameside 399.5 111.3
Trafford 258.3 82.5
Wigan 473.8 137.1
Knowsley 206.7 93.7
Liverpool 672.0 371.5
Sefton 337.8 134.0
St. Helens 405.0 78.0
Wirral 324.6 163.5
Hereford and Worcester 616.8 244.2
Shropshire 259.7 143.0
Staffordshire 3 958.0 3 365.5
Warwickshire 499.0 182.0
Birmingham 1,366.6 663.7
Coventry 449.3 280.4
Dudley 305.5 146.5
Sandwell 327.0 148.5
Solihull 158.7 88.9
Walsall 226.2 135.0
Wolverhampton 312.9 160.1
Derbyshire 1,465.3 499.0
Leicestershire 3 730.0 3 340.1
Lincolnshire 505.0 202.2
Northamptonshire 309.3 225.4
Nottinghamshire 1,244.9 575.1
Bedfordshire 412.0 235.4
Berkshire 611.7 300.3
Buckinghamshire 487.4 274.0
Cambridgeshire 504.3 248.7
Essex 3 1,71.0 621.0
Hertfordshire 656.1 423.3
Norfolk 671.3 299.4
Oxfordshire 468.0 218.5
Suffolk 456.5 222.2
Camden 3 409.8 3 319.8
Greenwich 416.8 183.7
Hackney 402.9 207.5
Hammersmith 252.3 162.8
Islington 253.9 203.9
Kensington 113.3 166.3
Lambeth 3 492.5 3 426.9
Lewisham 493.2 324.9
Southwark 3 435.0 3 266.2
Tower Hamlets 218.0 193.9
Wandsworth 410.9 330.8
Westminster 286.7 237.7
City of London 8.1 22.3
Barking 194.0 53.6
Barnet 218.0 112.0
Bexley 260.4 96.7
Brent 419.3 228.0

Home helps Social workers
Bromley 219.5 134.5
Croydon 234.3 136.5
Ealing 242.5 159.2
Enfield 303.4 144.5
Haringey 414.6 201.1
Harrow 213.0 132.3
Havering 215.4 93.0
Hillingdon 272.3 129.8
Hounslow 163.2 115.5
Kingston-upon-Thames 3 73.4 3 86.0
Merton 207.6 80.5
Newham 294.0 171.5
Redbridge 187.2 80.0
Richmond-upon-Thames 143.6 53.0
Sutton 117.1 110.8
Waltham Forest 382.8 209.3
Dorset 540.7 307.9
Hampshire 977.0 540.2
Isle of Wight 93.0 62.7
Kent 988.5 645.0
Surrey 464.6 347.6
East Sussex 658.2 325.3
West Sussex 3 560.6 3 259.6
Wiltshire 377.0 271.7
Avon 1,162.3 436.4
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 382.2 166.7
Devon 803.8 445.6
Gloucestershire 430.6 202.4
Somerset 432.5 188.2
England 51,898.8 24,789.4
1 The numbers of home helps and social workers relate to the position at 30 September 1985.
2 Figures are provisional.
3 Estimated from information for earlier years.

Table 2—Home helps1, expressed as whole time equivalents, per

thousand population aged 65 years and over2 by local authority,

1982–85
1982 1983 1984 3 1985
Cleveland 7.2 8.2 8.6 9.0
Cumbria 5.9 6.1 6.1 6.6
Durham 9.2 9.3 8.0 9.3
Northumberland 9.3 8.9 9.0 9.5
Gateshead 10.9 10.7 10.8 10.5
Newcastle upon Tyne 14.5 15.2 15.2 14.7
North Tyneside 8.1 8.7 8.6 9.3
South Tyneside 10.4 8.9 8.6 8.4
Sunderland 11.6 14.2 16.1 16.3
Humberside 8.4 8.3 9.0 8.7
North Yorkshire 4 4.6 4.7 5.5 5.9
Barnsley 11.0 11.3 11.3 11.1
Doncaster 13.1 12.8 12.4 12.0
Rotherham 11.7 12.3 12.4 12.2
Sheffield 11.5 10.5 11.3 11.8
Bradford 8.7 9.9 10.7 11.0
Calderdale 9.2 9.6 10.4 10.6
Kirklees 8.7 4 8.9 9.9 9.7
Leeds 8.0 8.5 8.9 9.7
Wakefield 8.1 8.5 8.6 8.5
Cheshire 6.2 6.8 7.7 6.8
Lancashire 6.2 6.7 7.1 6.9
Bolton 8.4 8.5 9.0 9.4
Bury 6.2 7.7 8.4 8.8
Manchester 9.1 9.7 10.6 11.3
Oldham 10.0 10.1 11.0 11.0
Rochdale 11.2 11.7 12.1 11.6
Salford 8.4 9.1 9.4 8.9
Stockport 6.4 6.9 4 6.9 7.3
Tameside 9.7 9.7 10.8 12.3
Trafford 7.5 8.6 9.0 7.9
Wigan 11.7 12.1 12.3 11.6
Knowsley 10.7 11.0 11.7 11.2
Liverpool 7.5 8.0 8.4 8.7

1982 1983 1984 3 1985
Sefton 6.8 7.1 7.2 7.0
St. Helens 15.4 16.0 16.1 16.3
Wirral 5.5 5.7 5.7 6.0
Hereford and Worcester 5.9 7.0 6.4 6.6
Shropshire 4.7 4.7 4.8 4.7
Staffordshire 4 7.3 4 7.4 4 7.3 4 7.1
Warwickshire 8.3 8.4 8.2 7.6
Birmingham 8.9 9.3 9.2 9.3
Coventry 9.0 9.5 9.5 10.1
Dudley 6.7 7.0 7.1 7.4
Sandwell 6.7 7.3 6.9 7.2
Solihull 5.5 5.7 5.5 6.4
Walsall 4 6.1 6.8 6.9 6.6
Wolverhampton 7.7 4 7.7 8.1 8.6
Derbyshire 7.8 9.2 9.7 10.5
Leicestershire 4 6.2 4 6.2 4 6.2 4 6.1
Lincolnshire 5.6 5.9 6.0 5.6
Northamptonshire 4.8 5.1 5.1 4.1
Nottinghamshire 4 7.2 8.3 8.5 8.7
Bedfordshire 5.7 7.2 6.6 6.8
Berkshire 6.6 6.4 7.7 7.2
Buckinghamshire 5.9 6.3 7.3 6.9
Cambridgeshire 5.8 5.9 6.0 6.0
Essex 4 5.4 4 5.4 4 5.4 5.2
Hertfordshire 4.5 4.9 5.0 5.0
Norfolk 4.7 4.8 5.0 5.2
Oxfordshire 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.3
Suffolk 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.5
Camden 13.4 13.6 15.1 4 14.9
Greenwich 11.5 12.4 13.3 13.1
Hackney 14.5 15.0 14.8 15.6
Hammersmith 10.8 11.1 11.4 10.7
Islington 9.9 10.3 10.8 10.7
Kensington 6.3 6.6 6.8 6.2
Lambeth 4 12.2 14.0 4 14.2 4 14.3
Lewisham 10.3 13.7 13.9 13.4
Southwark 10.8 11.8 12.8 4 12.7
Tower Hamlets 9.6 9.8 9.9 10.1
Wandsworth 10.0 10.4 10.4 10.4
Westminster 7.8 8.1 9.1 9.6
City of London 16.0 16.3 14.0 13.5
Barking 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6
Barnet 3.8 4.2 3.7 4.5
Bexley 8.3 8.6 8.7 3.4
Brent 8.5 9.8 10.2 12.3
Bromley 6.2 6.0 4.7 4.6
Croydon 4.8 4.7 5.2 5.4
Ealing 6.3 5.8 5.9 6.1
Enfield 5.5 5.5 6.3 7.2
Haringey 13.7 14.5 15.2 15.5
Harrow 4.7 5.8 6.1 6.7
Havering 6.8 6.8 7.0 6.5
Hillingdon 7.1 7.4 8.5 7.9
Hounslow 5.2 5.8 5.6 5.8
Kingston-upon-Thames 4 3.2 4 3.2 4 3.2 4 3.2
Merton 6.7 7.0 7.6 7.3
Newham 9.9 10.7 11.5 10.5
Redbridge 4.4 4.5 4.7 5.0
Richmond-upon-Thames 5.1 4.9 4.8 5.0
Sutton 3.8 4.3 4.0 4.3
Waltham Forest 9.4 9.0 10.4 11.0
Dorset 3.9 4.0 4.1 3.9
Hampshire 4.1 4.5 4.5 4.5
Isle of Wight 2.6 2.5 2.6 3.4
Kent 3.5 3.5 4.1 4.2
Surrey 3.2 4 3.2 4 3.2 3.0
East Sussex 3.4 3.7 3.9 4.1
West Sussex 4.5 3.6 4.0 4 4.0
Wiltshire 4.6 4.8 5.1 4.8
Avon 7.1 8.8 7.8 7.8
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly 4.2 4.0 4.3 4.6
Devon 4.0 4.3 4.3 4.2
Gloucestershire 5.6 5.8 5.9 5.3

1982 1983 1984 3 1985
Somerset 5.1 5.2 5.4 5.5
England 6.7 7.0 7.2 7.2
1 The numbers of home-helps relate to the position at 30 September each year.
2 The rates are based on the estimated population aged 65 years and over at 30 June each year.
3 The 1985 figures are provisional.
4 Estimated from information for earlier years.

Table 3 Social workers1, expressed as whole.time equivalents, per

thousand population aged 65 years and over2 by local authority,

1982–85
1982 1983 1984 31985
Cleveland 4.3 4.2 4.0 4.0
Cumbria 2.5 2.8 2.6 2.7
Durham 2.8 2.9 3.0 2.8
Northumberland 2.4 2.6 2.8 2.9
Gateshead 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.4
Newcastle upon Tyne 5.9 6.2 6.5 6.5
North Tyneside 3.8 3.9 4.1 4.2
South Tyneside 4.2 4.1 3.9 4.0
Sunderland 4.0 4.6 4.1 4.0
Humberside 2.7 2.7 2.5 2.6
North Yorkshire 4 2.1 2.4 2.4 2.3
Barnsley 2.7 2.9 2.9 2.8
Doncaster 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.4
Rotherham 3.4 3.5 3.8 3.9
Sheffield 3.9 4.3 4.4 4.6
Bradford 4.3 4.8 5.1 5.0
Calderdale 2.8 3.2 3.2 3.0
Kirklees 2.8 4 2.8 3.1 3.3
Leeds 2.9 3.2 3.3 3.8
Wakefield 5.3 5.3 5.1 5.0
Cheshire 2.9 3.0 3.2 3.1
Lancashire 2.6 2.8 2.9 3.0
Bolton 3.3 3.4 3.6 3.7
Bury 2.6 3.0 3.6 3.7
Manchester 5.8 6.2 6.6 6.5
Oldham 3.6 3.8 3.6 3.5
Rochdale 4.7 4.6 4.9 4.5
Salford 3.3 3.4 4.0 4.0
Stockport 3.4 3.7 4 3.7 3.7
Tameside 3.2 3.5 3.6 3.4
Trafford 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.5
Wigan 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.3
Knowsley 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.1
Liverpool 4.2 4.8 4.8 4.8
Sefton 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8
St. Helens 3.6 3.8 3.6 3.1
Wirral 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.0
Hereford and Worcester 2.6 2.8 2.5 2.6
Shropshire 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6
Staffordshire 4 2.8 4 2.8 4 2.8 4 2.7
Warwickshire 2.6 2.8 2.6 2.8
Birmingham 4.8 4.6 4.6 4.5
Coventry 5.6 5.5 6.1 6.3
Dudley 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.6
Sandwell 2.9 3.3 3.4 3.3
Solihull 2.8 2.9 2.8 3.6
Walsall 4 4.0 3.6 3.5 4.0
Wolverhampton 4.1 4 4.l 4.3 4.4
Derbyshire 3.4 3.4 3.8 3.6
Leicestershire 4 2.9 4 2.9 4 2.9 4 2.8
Lincolnshire 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.3
Northamptonshire 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.0
Nottinghamshire 4 3.4 3.9 4.0 4.0
Bedfordshire 3.6 3.9 4.0 3.9
Berkshire 3.2 3.3 3.5 3.5
Buckinghamshire 2.9 3.1 3.8 3.9
Cambridgeshire 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.0
Essex 4 2.6 4 2.5 4 2.5 2.8
Hertfordshire 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.2
Norfolk 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.3

1982 1983 1984 3 1985
Oxfordshire 3.1 3.0 2.9 3.0
Suffolk 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.2
Camden 9.8 10.6 11.8 4 11.6
Greenwich 3.9 5.2 5.8 5.8
Hackney 5.9 5.8 7.7 8.0
Hammersmith 7.2 6.6 7.4 6.9
Islington 7.5 8.2 7.7 8.6
Kensington 8.8 8.6 8.7 9.0
Lambeth 4 9.0 12.1 4 12.3 4 12.4
Lewisham 7.9 8.3 8.6 8.8
Southwark 7.4 7.7 7.8 4 7.8
Tower Hamlets 8.3 8.6 9.4 9.0
Wandsworth 7.2 8.3 8.2 8.3
Westminster 5.5 8.5 8.0 8.0
City of London 27.7 29.5 35.7 37.2
Barking 2.2 2.5 2.5 2.1
Barnet 2.4 2.4 2.2 2.3
Bexley 3.2 3.4 3.3 3.1
Brent 5.5 5.7 6.6 6.7
Bromley 3.1 2.8 2.9 2.8
Croydon 3.3 3.0 3.1 3.2
Ealing 3.8 4.4 5.0 4.0
Enfield 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.5
Haringey 6.3 6.6 7.4 7.5
Harrow 4.1 4.2 4.2 4.1
Havering 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.8
Hillingdon 4.1 4.0 4.1 3.8
Hounslow 3.7 4.1 4.5 4.1
Kinston-upon-Thames 4 3.8 4 3.8 4 3.8 4 3.7
Merton 2.6 2.8 3.3 2.8
Newham 4.5 5.3 5.5 6.1
Redbridge 2.4 2.4 2.2 2.1
Richmond-upon-Thames 1.7 1.6 1.7 1.8
Sutton 3.8 3.9 4.0 4.0
Waltham Forest 5.4 5.4 5.4 6.0
Dorset 2.2 2.0 2.2 2.2
Hampshire 2.4 2.5 2.3 2.5
Isle of Wight 1.6 1.7 2.3 2.3
Kent 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.7
Surrey 2.1 4 2.2 4 2.2 2.2
East Sussex 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.0
West Sussex 1.8 1.8 1.9 4 1.8
Wiltshire 3.3 3.3 4.2 3.5
Avon 3.3 3.3 3.3 2.9
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1.8 2.0 2.0 2.0
Devon 2.3 2.0 2.1 2.3
Gloucestershire 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
Somerset 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.4
ENGLAND 3.2 3.4 3.5 3.5
1 The numbers of social workers relate to the position at 30 September each year.
2 The rates are based on the estimated population aged 65 years and over at 30 June each year.
3 The 1985 figures are provisional.
4 Estimated from information for earlier years.

Mr. Hancock

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the 10 local authority districts with the highest number of social workers per head of population.

Mrs. Currie

Based on information available centrally, the 10 authorities with the highest number of social workers per thousand population are shown in the table.

TABLE
Social workers, expressed as whole-time equivalents, at

30 September 1985 per thousand population: the 10 authorities with

the highest rates.
Local authority Number per thousand population1
City of London 2 4.37
Camden 3 1.77

Local authority Number per thousand population1
Lambeth 3 1.75
Lewisham 1.40
Westminster 1.33
Tower Hamlets 1.32
Wandsworth 1.28
Southwark 3 1.23
Islington 1.21
Kensington 1.21
1 The numbers of social workers per thousand population are based on the population as at 30 June 1985 in each authority.
2 The rate for City of London is based on very small numbers.
3 In calculating the rates for Camden, Lambeth and Southwark the numbers of social workers were estimated from information for earlier years.