§ Miss Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the local authorities that are paying the adoption allowance and the number of adoptive children to whom it applies.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe Secretary of State has approved adoption allowance schemes submitted by the following local authorities in England.
London Borough
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Camden
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- City of Westminster
Metropolitan District
- Barnsley
- Birmingham
- Bolton
- Bradford
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Coventry
- Doncaster
- Dudley
- Kirklees
- Knowsley
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sheffield
- Solihull
- St. Helens
- Sunderland
- Tameside
- Trafford
- Walsall
- Wirral
- Wolverhampton
County Councils
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- East Sussex
171 - Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Hereford and Worcester
- Hertfordshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Norfolk
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Oxfordshire
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Suffolk
- Warwickshire
- West Sussex
- Wiltshire
A further 16 schemes have been submitted for approval.
Information on the operation of the schemes and the children who have benefited will be available next year from a research report commissioned by the Department from the National Children's Bureau.