The latest figures on the numbers and percentage of children subject to Child Protection Plans or placed on the Child Protection Register were published in a Statistical First Release (SFR) 24/2008 “Referrals, Assessments and Children and Young People who are the subject of a Child Protection Plan, England—Year ending 31 March 2008” on 16 September 2008. A copy of this release is available on my Department’s website:
Chris Ruane:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children’s homes there were in each local authority area of England on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many places in such homes were available in each local authority area. [244851]
Beverley Hughes:
This is a matter for Ofsted. HM chief inspector, Christine Gilbert, has written to my hon. Friend and a copy of her reply has been placed in the Library.
Letter from Christine Gilbert, dated 23 December 2008:
Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, for a response.
The table attached displays the number of children’s homes and the maximum number of registered places available within the geographical boundaries of each of the local authorities in England. I should emphasise that these are the number of homes geographically located in each area i.e. the figures include private and voluntary run homes. These figures were taken from data available at 30 September 2008 and only include children's homes which were active at that point in time. No registered places data were available for five out of the 1976 children’s homes (0.25%) and these are noted in the table below.
A copy of this reply has been sent to Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, and will be placed in the library of both Houses.
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Children’s homes providers and registered number of places for local authorities at the end of September 2008
Local authority
Children’s homes end of September 2008
Maximum places end of September 2008
Children’s homes without data on places at end of September 2008
