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Office of the Secretary of State for Wales

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Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list, for each local authority area, how many children there were on child protection registers broken down, by type of abuse, in (a) 1990, (b) 1997 and (c) 2000; and what was the rate of abuse per 10,000 children for Wales. [140565] Mr. Paul Murphy: Figures for 1990 and 1997 are set out in the table. Since 1 July 1999, this has been a matter for the National Assembly for Wales. Children on Child Protection Registers _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Neglect, Neglec Neglect Physical Neglect Physical Sexual Emotiona Grave Grave Total Rate per physical and and abuse (only) abuse abuse l abuse concern: concern: 10,000 and physical sexual and (only) (only) (only) househol other populati sexual abuse abuse sexual d on aged abuse abuse contains 0-17 known years abuser at 31 March 1990 Clwyd 1 4 0 1 19 83 54 16 107 86 371 39 Dyfed 0 25 3 2 37 60 26 25 68 109 355 45 Gwent 0 9 0 1 61 122 32 14 36 92 367 35 Gwynedd 0 1 1 1 8 10 2 0 15 20 58 11 Mid 0 5 0 0 12 61 23 15 35 28 179 14 Glamorgan Powys 0 0 1 0 20 10 9 2 21 22 85 33 South 1 8 2 5 106 112 26 34 144 315 753 78 Glamorgan West 0 1 2 1 12 23 8 2 64 21 134 16 Glamorgan Wales 2 53 9 11 275 481 180 108 490 693 2,302 35 at 31 March 1997: Isle of 0 0 0 0 7 4 4 2 {1}-- {1}-- 17 11 Anglesey Gwynedd 0 5 5 4 16 24 15 13 {1}-- {1}-- 82 32 Conwy 0 5 0 1 18 27 1 2 {1}-- {1}-- 54 24 Denbighshire 0 1 0 0 9 16 3 8 {1}-- {1}-- 37 18 Flintshire 0 2 0 0 3 12 12 2 {1}-- {1}-- 31 9 Wrexham 0 3 2 0 6 10 3 7 {1}-- {1}-- 31 11 Powys 0 2 3 0 12 1 6 19 {1}-- {1}-- 43 16 Ceredigion 0 0 0 0 7 9 9 8 {1}-- {1}-- 33 24 Pembrokeshir 0 1 1 0 26 13 13 19 {1}-- {1}-- 73 28 e Carmarthensh 0 6 0 2 54 27 12 24 {1}-- {1}-- 125 34 ire Swansea 0 0 0 0 32 36 33 22 {1}-- {1}-- 123 24 Neath Port 0 0 0 0 60 42 16 40 {1}-- {1}-- 158 50 Talbot Bridgend 0 0 0 2 4 22 1 8 {1}-- {1}-- 37 12 The Vale of 0 6 0 4 13 44 8 33 {1}-- {1}-- 108 37 Glamorgan Cardiff 4 35 5 6 143 109 48 112 {1}-- {1}-- 462 61 Rhondda, 0 8 2 0 47 30 12 36 {1}-- {1}-- 135 24 Cynon, Taff Merthyr 1 7 0 0 22 12 12 14 {1}-- {1}-- 68 46 Tydfil Caerphilly 5 12 1 4 31 50 30 19 {1}-- {1}-- 152 36 Blaenau 0 0 2 0 23 10 8 7 {1}-- {1}-- 50 29 Gwent Torfaen 0 2 0 0 10 19 6 2 {1}-- {1}-- 39 18 Monmouthshir 0 0 0 1 16 16 5 7 {1}-- {1}-- 45 23 e Newport 0 3 6 6 55 29 19 8 {1}-- {1}-- 126 37 Wales 10 98 27 30 614 562 276 412 {1}-- {1}-- 2,029 30 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Not applicable Note: Comparisons between abuse categories for these years are not possible as the category `Grave concern' was discontinued in 1993. Continuing Grave concern cases were assigned to another category.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

357 c868-70W; 140566

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Children Abuse Protection Offences against children Wales

Contains statistics

Yes

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