§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will identify the number of cases in the last year in which the child has been removed from the home instead of the abuser.
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§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyI have been asked to reply.
Information available centrally relates solely to the number of children for whom a place of safety order was made and where the local authority was responsible, or where the local authority made provision for a child removed on the authority of some other person or body. The most recently published information is in "Private Fostering and Place of Safety Orders in the year ended 31 March 1988: England" and is available in the Library. Provisional estimates for the year ended 31 March 1989 are that there were 7,100 children subject to such orders.
Statistics are not available centrally about whether the suspected abuser was part of the household.