HC Deb 30 April 2004 vol 420 cc1338-41W
Mr. Sanders

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skin; how many children were placed in residential care by each local authority in the last year for which figures arc available. [167135]

Margaret Hodge

The number of children in residential care in ea Ai local authority at 31 March 2003 is shown in the following table.

Children looked after at 31 March 2003 in residential care1,2,3
Number
England 8,400
North East Shire Counties
Durham 55
Northumberland 50

Children looked after at 31 March 2003 in residential care1,2,3
Number
Unitary Authorities
Darlington 20
Hartlepool 10
Middlesbrough 35
Redcar and Cleveland 20
Stockton on Tees 35
Metropolitan Districts
Gateshead 30
Newcastle Upon Tyne 40
North Tyneside 35
South Tyneside 30
Sunderland 70
North West Shire Counties
Cheshire 50
Cumbria 45
Lancashire 220
Unitary Authorities
Blackburn and Darwen 30
Blackpool 30
Halton 20
Warrington 15
Metropolitan Districts
Bolton 40
Bury 20
Knowsley 30
Liverpool 175
Manchester 185
Oldham 45
Rochdale 35
Salford 105
Sefton 100
St. Helens 45
Stockport 55
Tameside 45
Trafford 45
Wigan 55
Wirral 75
Yorkshire and The Humber Shire Counties
North Yorkshire 45
Unitary Authorities
East Riding Yorkshire 35
Kingston Upon Hull 85
North East Lincolnshire 30
North Lincolnshire 35
York 20
Metropolitan Districts
Barnsley 45
Bradford 110
Calderdale 30
Doncaster 45
Kirklees 55
Leeds 165
Rotherham 35
Sheffield 100
Wakefield 50
East Midlands Shire Counties
Derbyshire 65
Leicestershire 40
Lincolnshire 50
Northamptonshire 75
Nottinghamshire 35
Unitary Authorities
Derby 50
Leicester 40
Nottingham 60
Rutland
West Midlands Shire Counties
Shropshire 30
Staffordshire 90
Warwickshire 35
Worcestershire 50
Unitary Authorities
Herefordshire 15
Stoke-on-Trent 65
Telford and Wrekin 30
Metropolitan Districts
Birmingham 295
Coventry 50
Dudley 45
Sandwell 50
Solihull 30
Walsall 60
Wolverhampton 35
East of England Shire Counties
Bedfordshire 75
Cambridgeshire 45
Essex 185
Hertfordshire 125
Norfolk 135
Suffolk 85
Unitary Authorities
Luton 35
Peterborough 25
Southend 30
Thurrock 30
London Inner London
Camden 65
City of London
Greenwich 80
Hackney 60
Hammersmith and Fulham 60
Islington 115
Kensington and Chelsea 50
Lambeth 140
Lewisham 135
Southwark 90
Tower Hamlets 65
Wandsworth 40
Westminster 45
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham 95
Barnet 60
Bexley 20
Brent 70
Bromley 70
Croydon 90
Ealing 80
Enfield 60
Haringey 120
Harrow 30
Havering 40
Hillingdon 65
Hounslow 45
Kingston Upon Thames 20
Merton 20
Newham 80
Redbridge 25
Richmond Upon Thames 25
Sutton 20
Waltham Forest 95
South East Shire Counties
Buckinghamshire 40

Children looked after at 31 March 2003 in residential care1,2,3
Number
East Sussex 45
Hampshire 125
Kent 120
Oxfordshire 65
Surrey 135
West Sussex 85
Unitary Authorities
Bracknell Forest 15
B"right"on and Hove 35
Isle of Wight 10
Medway Towns 25
Milton Keynes 35
Portsmouth 35
Reading 25
Slough 20
Southampton 25
West Berkshire 20
Windsor and Maidenhead 15
Wokingham 10
South West Shire Counties
Cornwall 65
Devon 75
Dorset 40
Gloucestershire 55
Isles of Scilly 0
Somerset 60
Wiltshire 40
Unitary Authorities
Bath and North East Somerset 20
Bournemouth 30
Bristol 75
North Somerset 10
Plymouth 35
Poole 15
South Gloucestershire 20
Swindon 20
Torbay 25
1Residential care includes secure units, homes and hostels, residential schools, and other residential settings.
2Figures in this table exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements.
3Figures over 1,000 are rounded to the nearest 100. Figures between 1 and 5 have been suppressed. All other figures are rounded to the nearest 5.
Source:
Children Looked After by Local Authorities, Year Ending 31 March 2003.