§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many children were in care by local authority area in 1986, or the most recent year available; how many686W of these children are available for adoption; and how many children in care were adopted in each of the last five years.
§ Mrs. Currie[holding answer 15 January 1988]:The information available is given in the tables. Information is not collected centrally on the number of children in care available for adoption.
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Table 1 Children in care of local authorities in England by local authority area, at 31 March 1986 3Number England1 66,700 Cleveland 979 Cumbria 493 Durham 894 Northumberland 325 Gateshead 338 Newcastle Upon Tyne 826 North Tyneside 372 South Tyneside 332 Sunderland 389 Humberside 1,348 North Yorkshire 755 Barnsley 273 Doncaster 272 Rotherham 255 Sheffield2 820 Bradford 948 Calderdale 357 Kirklees 541 Leeds 1,453 Wakefield 389 Cheshire 1,017 Lancashire 2,328 Bolton 395 Bury 271 Manchester 1,555 Oldham 321 Rochdale 495 Salford 534 Stockport 352 Tameside 309 Trafford 298 Wigan 333 Knowsley 383 Liverpool 1,281 Sefton 406 St. Helens 284 Wirral 503 Hereford and Worcester 674 Shropshire 569 Staffordshire 1,199 Warwickshire 535 Birmingham 2,218 Coventry 578 Dudley 296 Sandwell 463 Solihull 262 Walsall 393 Wolverhampton 585 Derbyshire 1,174 Leicestershire 1,050 Lincolnshire 832 Northamptonshire 796 Nottinghamshire 1,821 Bedfordshire 787 Berkshire 794 Buckinghamshire 613 Cambridgeshire 852 Essex 1,189 Hertfordshire 892 Norfolk 795 Oxfordshire 572 Suffolk 507 Camden 344
3Number Greenwich 383 Hackney 755 Hammersmith 404 Islington2 769 Kensington 278 Lambeth 810 Lewisham2 587 Southwark 643 Tower Hamlets2 915 Wandsworth 572 Westminster 260 City of London 5 Barking 228 Barnet 132 Bexley 196 Brent 355 Bromley 245 Croydon 456 Ealing 363 Enfield 254 Haringey 411 Harrow 91 Havering 176 Hillingdon 166 Hounslow 289 Kingston upon Thames 143 Merton 175 Newham 438 Redbridge 256 Richmond upon Thames 103 Sutton 185 Waltham Forest 320 Dorset 631 Hampshire 2,270 Isle of Wight 124 Kent2 1,681 Surrey 797 East Sussex 790 West Sussex 776 Wiltshire 694 Avon 1,172 Cornwall 357 Devon2 897 Gloucestershire 521 Somerset 445 1 Figures are provisional and subject to revision. 2 Figures estimated using returns for earlier years. 3 Rounded to nearest hundred.
Table 2 Children in care in England who were adopted during the year ended 31 March, 1982–1986 Year Number 1982 1,828 1983 2,044 1984 1,912 1985 1,905 11986 1,916 1 The figure for 1986 is provisional and subject to revision.