HC Deb 23 April 1991 vol 189 cc423-4W
Mr. Hood

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many children have been taken into care in each Scottish local authority to protect them from abuse within their family, in each year since 1979.

1987 1988 1989
Community placement1 Residential placement2 Community placement1 Residential placement2 Community placement1 Residential placement2
Borders 8 0 4 2 4 0
Central 18 6 27 0 21 3
Dumfries/Galloway 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fife 24 5 31 6 19 3
Grampian 29 5 32 0 48 6
Highland 11 0 8 2 27 2
Lothian 0 0 1 0 16 3
Strathclyde3 260 81
Tayside 4 9 25 6 29 6
Orkney 0 0 1 0 0 1
Shetland 0 0 0 0 0 0
Western Isles 0 0 0 0 0 0
SCOTLAND 94 25 129 16 424 105
1 Include at home, with relatives or friends, and foster parents.
2 Include children's homes or hostels, residential schools, and assessment centres.
3 Breakdown by individual grounds not available for Strathclyde in 1987 and 1988.

The following evaluations have been published and copies are available in the Libraries of the House:

  • Evaluation of the Consultancy Initiatives
  • Segal Quince Wickstead
  • HMSO ISBN 0 11 514677 6;

  • Evaluation of the Consultancy Initiatives—Second Stage
  • Segal Quince Wickstead
  • HMSO ISBN 0 11 515269 5;

  • Evaluation of Regional Enterprise Grants
  • Leslie Hays Consultants Ltd.
  • HMSO ISBN 0 11 515236 9;

  • Evaluation of Regional Enterprise Grants
  • Segal Quince Wickstead
  • HMSO ISBN 0 11 515273 3.