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Care Proceedings

Answer

The Department for Education does not hold this information. I asked Anthony Douglas, chief executive of CAFCASS, to write to the hon. Member. He has now done so and a copy of his letter has been placed in the House Libraries.Letter from Anthony Douglas, dated 22 February 2012:"I am writing to you in order to provide answers to the Parliamentary Question that you tabled recently.""Please see the following table which indicates the care demand by local authority between April 2011 and December 2011."

Local authority	April to December 2011
Barnsley	38
Bath and North East Somerset	14
Bedfordshire	27
Bedford Borough	0
Birmingham	170
Blackburn	46
Blackpool	48
Bolton	52
Bournemouth	38
Bracknell Forest	9
Bradford	111
Brighton and Hove	84
Bristol	62
Buckinghamshire	36
Bury	43
Calderdale	46
Cambridgeshire	43
Central Bedfordshire	31
Cheshire	0
Cheshire East	23
Cheshire West and Chester	46
Cornwall	63
Coventry	61
Cumbria	85
Darlington	25
Derby City Council	76
Derbyshire	102
Devon	92
Doncaster	80
Dorset	18
Dudley	49
Durham	77
East Riding of Yorks	35
East Sussex	84
Essex	183
Gateshead	54
Gloucestershire	42
Halton	17
Hampshire	97
Hartlepool	21
Herefordshire	20
Hertfordshire	119
Isle of Wight	14
Isles of Scilly	0
Kent	237
Hull	75
Kirklees	74
Knowsley	16
Lancashire	139
Leeds	158
Leicester City	54
Leicestershire	66
Lincolnshire	70
Liverpool	77
London—Barking and Dagenham	55
London—Barnet	33
London—Bexley	29
London—Brent	45
London—Bromley	29
London—Camden	37
City of London	2
London—Croydon	43
London—Ealing	54
London—Enfield	31
London—Greenwich	43
London—Hackney	34
London—Hammersmith and Fulham	37
London—Haringey	74
London—Harrow	13
London—Havering	7
London—Hillingdon	31
London—Hounslow	22
London—Islington	29
London—Kensington and Chelsea	13
London—Kingston-upon-Thames	14
London—Lambeth	57
London—Lewisham	55
London—Merton	18
London—Newham	28
London—Redbridge	21
London—Richmond	7
London—Southwark	76
London—Sutton	21
London—Tower Hamlets	36
London—Waltham Forest	41
London—Wandsworth	32
London—Westminster	19
Luton	33
Manchester	110
Medway	35
Middlesbrough	56
Milton Keynes	25
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	51
Norfolk	129
North East Lincolnshire	21
North Lincolnshire	23
North Somerset	20
North Tyneside	33
North Yorkshire	49
Northamptonshire	67
Northumberland	37
Nottingham City	60
Nottinghamshire	86
Oldham Metropolitan	31
Oxfordshire	52
Peterborough	46
Plymouth	43
Poole	13
Portsmouth	23
Reading	34
Redcar and Cleveland	48
Rochdale	58
Rotherham	57
Rutland	1
Salford	40
Sandwell	70
Sefton	35
Sheffield City	102
Shropshire	28
Slough	22
Solihull	18
Somerset	82
South Gloucestershire	24
South Tyneside	65
Southampton	52
Southend	20
St Helens	34
Staffordshire	86
Stockport	37
Stockton-on-Tees	65
Stoke-on-Trent	60
Suffolk	84
Sunderland	62
Surrey	89
Swindon	15
Tameside	51
Telford and Wrekin	42
Thurrock	25
Torbay	41
Trafford	18
Wakefield	53
Walsall	33
Warrington	34
Warwickshire	78
West Berkshire	9
West Sussex	57
Wigan	44
Wiltshire	25
Windsor and Maidenhead	13
Wirral	53
Wokingham	12
Wolverhampton	66
Worcestershire	44
York	36
Total	7,498
Note:
The figures in the table are provided from the CAFCASS national case management system (CMS). The unit of measurement is a Care application, upon its receipt by CAFCASS from the court and its entry into CMS. An application can involve multiple children. CMS is a live system and any late entries will be accounted for at the time of release of subsequent updates to this data.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

96584; 541 c140-2W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Care proceedings

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk