Select Committee on Health Report

Table 5.4.1

PROPORTION OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR ADULTS WHICH ARE PURCHASED BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITY FROM THE INDEPENDENT SECTOR: ENGLAND 1997

per cent

Government office region and local authority	Survey week September 1997 (1)	Contact hours of home help/care	Meals served at home and at luncheon clubs	Day centre places (2)
As at 31 March 1997 (1) Supported residents in residential care (3)
ENGLAND	44	45	22	65
NORTH EAST Shire Counties Durham	50	42	16	49
Northumberland	42	90	. .	62
Unitary Authorities Darlington	33	54	43	.
Hartlepool	21	43	14	48
Middlesbrough	. .	0	. .	42
Redcar & Cleveland	0	0	13	.
Stockton-on-Tees	. .	0	17	50
Metropolitan Districts Gateshead	10	15	0	50
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	49	25	53	81
North Tyneside	5	0	34	73
South Tyneside	45	14	15	56
Sunderland	17	100	16	73
NORTH WEST Shire Counties Cheshire	42	59	0	71
Cumbria	37	12	23	48
Lancashire	53	61	12	64
Metropolitan Districts Bolton	14	14	19	65
Bury	39	83	9	44
Manchester	39	9	18	92
Oldham	20	0	16	75
Rochdale	30	13	0	64
Salford	54	18	7	43
Stockport	26	13	21	79
Tameside	24	0	0	81
Trafford	3	94	3	51
Wigan	2	70	. .	76
MERSEYSIDE Metropolitan Districts Knowsley	. .	0	0	86
Liverpool	22	9	0	54
St Helens	10	0	0	45
Sefton	58	34	14	58
Wirral	19	0	. .	50
YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER Shire Counties North Yorkshire	27	40	39	47
Unitary Authorities East Riding	42	4	14	83
Kingston-upon-Hull	20	18	1	85
N E Lincolnshire	14	15	0	59
N Lincolnshire	35	6	0	68
York	30	61	10	40
Metropolitan Districts Barnsley	34	0	7	62
Bradford	21	16	29	62
Calderdale	22	7	33	44
Doncaster	47	67	12	47
Kirklees	13	3	40	56
Leeds	. .	20	0	39
Rotherham	16	0	27	45
Sheffield	14	73	. .	61
Wakefield	0	0	5	66
EAST MIDLANDS Shire Counties Derbyshire	18	80	19	56
Leicestershire	58	20	18	71
Lincolnshire	29	38	19	69
Northamptonshire	58	20	48	53
Nottinghamshire	10	13	0	58
Unitary Authorities Derby	18	100	17	.
Leicester	46	35	29	.
Rutland	44	80	0	.
WEST MIDLANDS Shire Counties Hereford & Worcester	28	66	10	64
Shropshire	57	77	0	82
Staffordshire	27	32	. .	47
Warwickshire	36	100	. .	75
Unitary Authorities Stoke-on-Trent	0	67	11	.
Metropolitan Districts Birmingham	. .	0	. .	56
Coventry	54	11	41	52
Dudley	41	26	35	58
Sandwell	50	0	36	56
Solihull	40	100	34	55
Walsall	67	34	31	48
Wolverhampton	56	32	20	44
SOUTH WEST Shire Counties Cornwall	72	100	. .	98
Devon	43	5	21	79
Dorset	37	95	. .	85
Gloucestershire	57	19	24	91
Isles of Scilly	100	0	. .	9
Somerset	96	85	18	78
Wiltshire	43	51	. .	46
Unitary Authorities Bath & N E Somerset	28	100	17	56
Bournemouth	55	0	0	.
Bristol	. .	100	0	50
North Somerset	17	33	4	74
Poole	45	0	0	.
South Gloucestershire	. .	0	0	43
Swindon	35	49	35	.
EASTERN Shire Counties Bedfordshire	. .	94	2	54
Cambridgeshire	. .	32	. .	41
Essex	46	29	22	62
Hertfordshire	72	44	. .	81
Norfolk	39	33	50	67
Suffolk	49	. .	29	54
Unitary Authorities Luton	51	0	1	.
LONDON Inner London Camden	35	30	46	69
Greenwich	69	4	7	61
Hackney	75	32	57	75
Hammersmith & Fulham	48	9	10	65
Islington	53	27	36	68
Kensington & Chelsea	53	87	40	58
Lambeth	5	100	0	31
Lewisham	20	36	0	75
Southwark	57	3	0	65
Tower Hamlets	41	26	27	71
Wandsworth	53	100	31	87
Westminster	57	100	52	75
City of London	49	100	. .	58
Outer London Barking & Dagenham	23	. .	0	40
Barnet	77	54	. .	65
Bexley	11	0	32	79
Brent	86	8	10	77
Bromely	4	. .	. .	93
Croydon	34	92	21	70
Ealing	. .	0	0	81
Enfield	59	22	15	76
Haringey	42	27	27	85
Harrow	. .	0	0	81
Havering	31	32	7	50
Hillingdon	31	14	4	29
Hounslow	62	2	27	77
Kingston-upon-Thames	73	39	44	63
Merton	51	1	42	48
Newham	31	100	0	78
Redbridge	44	9	9	56
Richmond-upon-Thames	56	100	19	68
Sutton	0	1	30	67
Waltham Forest	18	25	32	76
SOUTH EAST Shire Counties Berkshire	47	66	32	67
Buckinghamshire	41	63	33	86
East Sussex	71	0	47	81
Hampshire	74	80	25	57
Kent	80	74	50	78
Oxfordshire	49	63	53	44
Surrey	68	29	. .	45
West Sussex	18	100	18	70
Unitary Authorities Brighton & Hove	74	0	24	.
Isle of Wight	30	100	78	91
Milton Keynes	0	99	52	.
Portsmouth	100	96	11	.
Southampton	74	5	38	.

Footnotes:

  1.  Data collected on DH annual returns HH1 (home help), MS1 (meals), DC3 (day centres) for a survey week during the autumn, and SR1 (supported residents) as at 31 March.

  2.  Whole-day equivalent places.

  3.  Includes residents supported in other authorities.

Key:

  . .  not available.

   .  not applicable—unitary authority came into existence on 1 April 1997.

5.5  Care for children

Could the Department provide a table, by Local Authority, comparing the number of children fostered, with the number of children placed in community homes.

  1.  Table 5.5.1 provides the information in respect of the situation at 31 March 1996. This is drawn from the annual statistical publication Children Looked After by Local Authorities, Year Ending 31 March 1996, England, which provides further information on the commencement and termination of periods looked after. Information for the year ending 31 March 1997 will be published in the next few months.

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Prepared 2 November 1998