§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish such details as are available to him on the number of young people in care, or subject to care orders, who have absconded in each local authority area in each of the past three years and to date; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe numbers of children and young people in care who, on 31 March, had absconded for more than one week from residential accommodation are given in the table for 1982, 1983 and 1984 for each local authority.
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Children and young people in care who absconded from residential accommodation by local authority at 31 March, 1982 to 1984 1982 1983 1984 Cleveland 0 0 1 Cumbria 0 0 0 Durham 2 7 6 Northumberland 1 0 1 Gateshead 0 0 0 Newcastle upon Tyne 1 3 2 North Tyneside 2 1 0 South Tyneside 0 1 0 Sunderland 3 0 2 Humberside 4 2 4 North Yorkshire 2 0 1 Barnsley 0 0 0 Doncaster 0 2 1 Rotherham 0 0 0 Sheffield 2 4 1 Bradford 5 2 2 Calderdale 2 0 1 Kirklees 2 5 3 Leeds 0 1 0 Wakefield 0 0 0 Cheshire 9 1 3 Lancashire 7 7 4 Bolton 0 0 0 Bury 4 3 1 Manchester 25 25 18 Oldham 3 5 1 Rochdale 3 1 0 Salford 5 2 3 Stockport 2 12 0 Tameside 2 1 11 Trafford 3 5 0 Wigan 1 1 2 Knowsley 0 0 2 Liverpool 24 26 21 Sefton 7 7 1 St. Helens 0 0 0 Wirral 3 4 1 Hereford and Worcester 0 0 1 Shropshire 0 0 0 Staffordshire 0 0 0 Warwickshire 0 0 0 Birmingham 61 48 48 Coventry 11 2 8
1982 1983 1984 Dudley 1 1 3 Sandwell 0 0 0 Solihull 0 0 0 Walsall 5 3 3 Wolverhampton 3 2 2 Derbyshire 0 0 0 Leicestershire 1 2 2 Lincolnshire 0 0 0 Northamptonshire 1 0 1 Nottinghamshire 5 4 2 Bedfordshire 4 3 1 Berkshire 5 4 7 Buckinghamshire 1 2 2 Cambridgeshire 4 2 3 Essex 9 6 4 Hertfordshire 0 2 0 Norfolk 0 1 1 Oxfordshire 1 0 0 Suffolk 0 0 0 Camden 11 1 1 Greenwich 2 3 4 Hackney 5 4 2 Hammersmith 1 4 5 Islington 17 17 17 Kensington 0 0 0 Lambeth 9 16 15 Lewisham 14 1 3 Southwark 10 3 11 Tower Hamlets 12 12 12 Wandsworth 13 13 4 Westminster 0 0 0 City of London 0 0 0 Barking 2 3 2 Barnet 1 4 1 Bexley 1 1 0 Brent 4 1 1 Bromley 0 1 0 Croydon 0 3 1 Ealing 0 0 1 Enfield 5 2 3 Haringey 2 5 2 Harrow 0 0 0 Havering 0 1 1 Hillingdon 3 4 1 Hounslow 2 4 0 Kingston-upon-Thames 1 0 0 Merton 1 0 0 Newham 5 3 1 Redbridge 0 0 0 Richmond-upon-Thames 1 2 0 Sutton 0 0 0 Waltham Forest 3 3 0 Dorset 1 0 0 Hampshire 3 3 5 Isle of Wight 0 0 0 Kent 11 1 2 Surrey 2 7 4 East Sussex 0 5 2 West Sussex 0 0 1 Wiltshire 1 0 3 Avon 12 10 10 Cornwall 0 0 0 Devon 0 1 0 Gloucestershire 0 0 1 Somerset 0 0 0 ENGLAND 341 308 267 1Estimated from information for earlier years.