§ Mr. Nicholas BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of spaces available in each juvenile remand home and other secure accommodation together with the number of vacancies currently available.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyLocal authority social services departments provide a range of facilities and services, both residential and non-residential, which may be used by juveniles remanded to their care. This includes a national network of approved secure accommodation to which all local authorities have access.
The number of places available in approved local authority secure units in England on 30 June 1990 was 294. Such accommodation is, however, available for children in care generally, some of whom will be alleged juvenile offenders. Details of the number of places provided in each secure unit are in the following table.
Occupancy figures are collected annually. Provisional figures for the year ending 31 March 1989 indicate that there were 282 approved secure places on that date, of which 224 were occupied (an occupancy rate of 79.4 per cent.). This figure is similar to the year-end occupancy rates of previous years.
Information relating to the provision of secure accommodation in Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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Table: Places provided in local authority secure accommodation on 30 June 1990 Region Name of Unit Local Authority Number of places Northern Aycliffe (Royston House) Durham *14M Aycliffe Special Unit Durham 36M Netherton Park Northumberland 5M Yorkshire and Kepples View Rotherham 4M Humberside East Moor Leeds 27B North Western Red Sands Cheshire 6M Derwent House Liverpool 4G Red Bank (Vardy House) Lancashire 4B Red Bank Special Unit Lancashire 26B Blackbrook House (Labore House) Liverpool SSVA 5G Briars Hey (Orchard House) Lancashire 8G Dyson Hall Liverpool 8B Barton Moss (Park House) Salford 7B West Midlands Stoke House Coventry 8M St. Johns Birmingham 4M East Midlands Moorfield Derby 2M Kesteven Lincoln 4M Amberdale Nottinghamshire 8M Greenacres Derby 5M Thames/Anglia Salters Cambridgeshire 6G Woodside Young People's Centre Hertfordshire 2M Thornbury House Oxfordshire 3B Brookside Berkshire 4M London Middlesex Lodge Hillingdon 9G Little Heath Lodge Newham 6B Orchard Lodge Southwark 8B Frant Court Greenwich 3G Stamford House Hammersmith 16B Southern Landsdowne East Sussex 5M Beechfield West Sussex 6M Fairfield Hampshire 3G Glen House Hampshire 8B South Western Atkinson Unit Devon 12M Kingswood Avon 20B M = Mixed B = Boy G = Girl