HC Deb 07 September 2004 vol 424 cc978-81W
Mr. Woodward

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children's information services(a) have been opened and (b) are planned to be opened in (i) St Helens and (ii) England, broken down by region. [186810]

Margaret Hodge

Since the introduction of the National Childcare Strategy in 1998 each local authority in England has been required to have a Children's Information Service (CIS). However, in some cases bordering local authorities have provided a joint service. There are currently 146 CISs in England. St Helens has one CIS. The table below breaks down by region the local authorities in England that operate a CIS.

Children's Information Services in England

East Midlands

  • Derby City
  • Derbyshire
  • Leicester City
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Northamptonshire
  • Nottingham City
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Rutland

East of England

  • Bedfordshire
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (two LAs)
  • Essex
  • Hertfordshire
  • Luton
  • Norfolk
  • Southend on Sea
  • Suffolk
  • Thurrock

North East

  • North East
  • Darlington
  • Durham
  • Gateshead
  • Hartlepool
  • Middlesbrough
  • Newcastle
  • North Tyneside
  • Northumberland
  • Redcar and Cleveland

  • South Tyneside
  • Stockton-on-Tees
  • Sunderland

North London

  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Barnet
  • Brent
  • Camden
  • City of London
  • Enfield
  • Hackney
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Haringey
  • Harrow
  • Havering
  • Islington
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Newham
  • Redbridge
  • Tower Hamlet
  • Waltham Forest
  • Westminster

South London

  • Bexley
  • Bromley
  • Croydon
  • Ealing
  • Greenwich
  • Hillingdon
  • Hounslow
  • Kingston upon Thames
  • Lambeth
  • Lewisham
  • Merton
  • Richmond upon Thames
  • Southwark
  • Sutton
  • Wandsworth

North West

  • Blackburn with Darwen
  • Blackpool
  • Bolton
  • Bury
  • Cheshire
  • Cumbria
  • Halton
  • Knowsley
  • Lancashire
  • Liverpool
  • Manchester
  • Oldham
  • Rochdale
  • Salford
  • Sefton
  • St. Helens
  • Stockport
  • Tameside
    • 980W
  • Trafford
  • Warrington
  • Wigan
  • Wirral

South East

  • Brighton and Hove
  • Buckinghamshire
  • East Sussex
  • Hampshire
  • Isle of Wight
  • Kent
  • Medway
  • Milton Keynes
  • Oxfordshire
  • Portsmouth
  • Reading, West Berkshire and Bracknell Forest CIS (3 Las)
  • Slough
  • Southampton
  • Surrey
  • West Sussex
  • Windsor and Maidenhead
  • Wokingham

South West

  • Bath and NE Somerset
  • Bournemouth
  • Bristol
  • Cornwall
  • Devon and Torbay (two Las)
  • Dorset
  • Gloucestershire
  • Isles of Scilly
  • North Somerset
  • Plymouth
  • Poole
  • Somerset
  • South Gloucestershire
  • Swindon
  • Wiltshire

West Midlands

  • Birmingham
  • Coventry
  • Dudley
  • Herefordshire
  • Sandwell
  • Shropshire
  • Solihull
  • Staffordshire
  • Stoke on Trent
  • Telford & Wrekin
  • Walsall
  • Warwickshire
  • Wolverhampton
  • Worcestershire

Yorkshire and Humberside

  • Barnsley
  • Bradford
  • Calderdale

  • Doncaster
  • East Riding of Yorkshire
  • Kingston upon Hull
  • Kirklees
  • Leeds
  • North East Lincolnshire
  • North Lincolnshire
  • North Yorkshire
  • Rotherham
  • Sheffield
  • Wakefield
  • York