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  17100   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  40100   34  55
Walsall  67  34   31  48
Wolverhampton  56   32  20  44

SOUTH WEST
Shire Counties
Cornwall
  72100  . .   98
Devon  43    5   21  79
Dorset  37  95   . .  85
Gloucestershire  57   19  24  91
Isles of Scilly100    0   . .    9
Somerset  96  85   18  78
Wiltshire  43  51   . .  46
Unitary Authorities
Bath & N E Somerset
  28100  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    5100     0  31
Lewisham  20  36     0  75
Southwark  57    3     0  65
Tower Hamlets  41   26  27  71
Wandsworth  53100   31  87
Westminster  57100   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  31100     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  18100   18  70
Unitary Authorities
Brighton & Hove
  74    0   24   .
Isle of Wight  30 100  78  91
Milton Keynes    0   99  52   .
Portsmouth100  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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