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Ministerial Corrections

Wednesday 11 March 2009

Children, Schools and Families

Foster Care

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children who left care in 2008 in each local authority area had had more than ( a) three, (b) five, (c) 10, (d) 20, (e) 30, (f) 40 and (g) 50 foster placements whilst they were in care. [255711]

[Official Report, 12 February 2009, Vol. 487, c. 2244-2252W.]

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Letter of correction from Beverley Hughes:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) on 12 February 2009. Unfortunately the error occurred as a result of duplicate placement index numbers being counted instead of being removed during the analysis. This error has affected all of the figures provided.

The correct answer should have been:

Beverley Hughes: Information on the number of children who left care in 2008 in each local authority who had more than (a) three, (b) five, (c) 10, (d) 20, (e) 30, (f) 40 and (g) 50 foster placements while they were in care in England can be found in the following table.

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Children who ceased to be looked after by the number of foster placements while they were in care, by local authority( 1,)( )( 2,)( )( 3,)( )( 4,)( )( 5,) year ending 31 March 2008—Coverage: England
Number
	Number of foster placements during time in care
	More than 3	More than 5	More than 10	More than 20	More than 30	More than 40	More than 50
England	3,400	1,500	340	50	10	—	—
North East	210	90	20	—	—	0	0
Darlington	5	—	0	0	0	0	0
Durham	35	15	—	—	0	0	0
Gateshead	10	—	—	0	0	0	0
Hartlepool	10	5	—	0	0	0	0
Middlesbrough	20	10	—	0	0	0	0
Newcastle upon Tyne	35	20	—	0	0	0	0
North Tyneside	20	5	—	0	0	0	0
Northumberland	15	—	—	0	0	0	0
Redcar and Cleveland	15	10	—	—	—	0	0
South Tyneside	15	—	0	0	0	0	0
Stockton-on-Tees	10	5	0	0	0	0	0
Sunderland	5	—	—	0	0	0	0
North West	480	210	50	10	—	—	0
Blackburn with Darwen	15	5	—	0	0	0	0
Blackpool	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Bolton	20	5	—	0	0	0	0
Bury	15	5	0	0	0	0	0
Cheshire	50	25	5	—	—	—	0
Cumbria	35	15	5	—	0	0	0
Halton	10	5	—	0	0	0	0
Knowsley	20	15	—	—	—	0	0
Lancashire	65	30	10	—	—	0	0
Liverpool	40	15	—	—	—	0	0
Manchester	60	25	—	0	0	0	0
Oldham	10	5	0	0	0	0	0
Rochdale	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Salford	10	5	—	0	0	0	0
Sefton	5	—	—	0	0	0	0
St. Helens	10	—	—	0	0	0	0
Stockport	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Tameside	15	5	0	0	0	0	0
Trafford	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Warrington	—	—	0	0	0	0	0
Wigan	15	10	—	0	0	0	0
Wirral	30	15	—	0	0	0	0
Yorkshire and the Humber	310	140	30	—	0	0	0
Barnsley	5	—	—	0	0	0	0
Bradford	35	15	—	0	0	0	0
Calderdale	20	10	—	0	0	0	0
Doncaster	25	10	5	0	0	0	0
East Riding of Yorkshire	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kingston upon Hull, City of	35	15	—	0	0	0	0
Kirklees	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Leeds	60	30	—	—	0	0	0
North East Lincolnshire	5	—	0	0	0	0	0
North Lincolnshire	5	—	0	0	0	0	0
North Yorkshire	20	10	—	—	0	0	0
Rotherham	20	10	0	0	0	0	0
Sheffield	20	10	—	0	0	0	0
Wakefield	20	5	—	0	0	0	0
York	15	10	—	0	0	0	0
East Midlands	250	110	40	—	0	0	0
Derby	15	10	—	0	0	0	0
Derbyshire	35	20	10	—	0	0	0
Leicester	35	15	—	0	0	0	0
Leicestershire	15	5	0	0	0	0	0
Lincolnshire	40	15	—	—	0	0	0
Northamptonshire	40	20	10	—	0	0	0
Nottingham	35	15	—	0	0	0	0
Nottinghamshire	25	10	—	0	0	0	0
Rutland	—	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Midlands	370	160	50	10	—	—	—
Birmingham	95	45	10	—	0	0	0
Coventry	30	10	—	0	0	0	0
Dudley	10	—	—	0	0	0	0
Herefordshire	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Sandwell	25	10	10	—	0	0	0
Shropshire	5	—	—	0	0	0	0
Solihull	15	—	0	0	0	0	0
Staffordshire	40	10	—	0	0	0	0
Stoke-on-Trent	20	10	—	0	0	0	0
Telford and Wrekin	5	5	—	—	0	0	0
Walsall	15	—	0	0	0	0	0
Warwickshire	45	25	15	5	—	—	0
Wolverhampton	25	10	—	—	—	—	—
Worcestershire	20	10	—	0	0	0	0
East of England	360	180	40	—	—	0	0
Bedfordshire	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Cambridgeshire	15	5	—	0	0	0	0
Essex	120	60	20	—	—	0	0
Hertfordshire	40	15	—	0	0	0	0
Luton	25	10	—	0	0	0	0
Norfolk	55	25	—	0	0	0	0
Peterborough	25	10	—	0	0	0	0
Southend-on-Sea	20	15	—	0	0	0	0
Suffolk	35	20	10	0	0	0	0
Thurrock	20	15	—	0	0	0	0
London	510	170	30	—	0	0	0
Inner London	230	80	10	—	0	0	0
Camden	15	—	0	0	0	0	0
City of London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hackney	20	10	0	0	0	0	0
Hammersmith and Fulham	15	—	—	0	0	0	0
Haringey	20	10	—	0	0	0	0
Islington	15	—	—	0	0	0	0
Kensington and Chelsea	—	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lambeth	25	10	0	0	0	0	0
Lewisham	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Newham	30	10	—	0	0	0	0
Southwark	35	15	—	0	0	0	0
Tower Hamlets	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Wandsworth	15	5	—	—	0	0	0
Westminster	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Outer London	280	100	20	—	0	0	0
Barking and Dagenham	25	10	—	—	0	0	0
Barnet	15	—	—	0	0	0	0
Bexley	10	5	—	0	0	0	0
Brent	30	10	0	0	0	0	0
Bromley	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Croydon	25	—	0	0	0	0	0
Ealing	20	5	—	0	0	0	0
Enfield	15	5	0	0	0	0	0
Greenwich	25	—	0	0	0	0	0
Harrow	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Havering	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Hillingdon	20	10	—	0	0	0	0
Hounslow	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Kingston upon Thames	10	—	0	0	0	0	0
Merton	5	—	—	—	0	0	0
Redbridge	10	—	—	0	0	0	0
Richmond upon Thames	—	—	0	0	0	0	0
Sutton	15	5	5	0	0	0	0
Waltham Forest	10	5	—	0	0	0	0
South East	490	210	40	—	—	—	0
Bracknell Forest	5	—	0	0	0	0	0
Brighton and Hove	35	20	10	—	—	—	0
Buckinghamshire	5	—	0	0	0	0	0
East Sussex	25	10	—	0	0	0	0
Hampshire	95	35	5	0	0	0	0
Isle of Wight	20	10	—	0	0	0	0
Kent	80	30	—	0	0	0	0
Medway Towns	15	5	0	0	0	0	0
Milton Keynes	25	20	—	0	0	0	0
Oxfordshire	20	10	0	0	0	0	0
Portsmouth	10	—	—	0	0	0	0
Reading	10	5	—	—	—	0	0
Slough	10	—	—	0	0	0	0
Southampton	25	10	—	0	0	0	0
Surrey	45	20	—	0	0	0	0
West Berkshire	—	—	0	0	0	0	0
West Sussex	50	20	—	0	0	0	0
Windsor and Maidenhead	—	—	0	0	0	0	0
Wokingham	5	—	0	0	0	0	0
South West	420	200	40	—	—	0	0
Bath and North East Somerset	5	—	0	0	0	0	0
Bournemouth	15	5	—	0	0	0	0
Bristol, City of	50	25	5	0	0	0	0
Cornwall	40	20	—	0	0	0	0
Devon	45	20	—	0	0	0	0
Dorset	15	5	—	0	0	0	0
Gloucestershire	40	20	—	0	0	0	0
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Somerset	25	10	—	—	0	0	0
Plymouth	35	20	—	—	—	0	0
Poole	15	10	—	0	0	0	0
Somerset	45	25	—	—	0	0	0
South Gloucestershire	15	5	—	0	0	0	0
Swindon	40	25	5	0	0	0	0
Torbay	15	—	0	0	0	0	0
Wiltshire	15	10	—	0	0	0	0
(1) Source: SSDA903 return on children looked after. (2) Figures shown are cumulative. (3) The number of foster placements excludes any episodes of care where children were looked after under an agreed series of short term placements. (4) Children who, at the time they ceased to be looked after, were not in a foster care placement but who had previously been placed in foster care, have been included. (5) To ensure that no individual can be identified from statistical tables, we use conventions for the rounding and suppression of very small numbers. National figures have been rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 or to the nearest 10 otherwise. Numbers at local authority level have been rounded to the nearest five and numbers at region level have been rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers of five or less have been suppressed and replaced with a hyphen (—) except where the number is zero.

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