Information on the parents of children looked after is not collected centrally.
Information on the proportion of girls in care who became pregnant in each local authority is not collected centrally. However information on the number and proportion of girls in care who are mothers at 31 March 2005 is shown in the following table.
Number and percentage All females looked after aged 12 and over3 All mothers aged 12 and over4 The percentage of females looked after aged 12 and over and who were mothers England 13,400 320 2 North East 640 10 2 Shire counties Durham 90 5— 5— Northumberland 80 5— 5— Unitary authorities Darlington 20 0 0 Hartlepool 20 0 0 Middlesbrough 40 5— 5— Redcar and Cleveland 30 5— 5— Stockton on Tees 40 5— 5— Metropolitan districts Gateshead 50 0 0 Newcastle Upon Tyne 100 5— 5— North Tyneside 40 5— 5— South Tyneside 50 5— 5— Sunderland 80 5— 5— North West 2,100 40 2 Shire counties Cheshire 130 5— 5— Cumbria 120 0 0 Lancashire 280 5— 5— Unitary authorities Blackburn and Darwen 60 5— 5— Blackpool 50 5— 5— Halton 30 0 0 Warrington 40 5— 5— Metropolitan districts Bolton 60 5— 5— Bury 50 0 0 Knowsley 60 0 0 Liverpool 190 5— 5— Manchester 330 10 4 Oldham 80 5— 5— Rochdale 60 5— 5— Salford 120 5— 5— Sefton 80 5— 5— St. Helens 50 5— 5— Stockport 70 5— 5— Tameside 50 5— 5— Trafford 40 5— 5— Wigan 80 5— 5— Wirral 130 5— 5— Yorkshire and The Humber 1,400 30 2 Shire counties North Yorkshire 90 0 0 Unitary authorities East Riding Yorkshire 60 5— 5— Kingston Upon Hull 110 5— 5— N E Lincolnshire 40 5— 5— North Lincolnshire 40 5— 5— York 30 0 0 Metropolitan districts Barnsley 50 0 0 Bradford 160 5— 5— Calderdale 50 5— 5— Doncaster 90 5— 5— Kirklees 60 0 0 Leeds 300 5— 5— Rotherham 80 5— 5— Sheffield 140 5— 5— Wakefield 90 5— 5— East Midlands 770 10 2 Shire counties Derbyshire 100 5— 5— Leicestershire 90 5— 5— Lincolnshire 110 5— 5— Northamptonshire 100 0 0 Nottinghamshire 100 5— 5— Unitary authorities Derby 80 5— 5— Leicester 100 5— 5— Nottingham 90 5— 5— Rutland 5— 0 0 West Midlands 1,400 30 2 Shire counties Shropshire 50 0 0 Staffordshire 130 0 0 Warwickshire 100 5— 5— Worcestershire 90 0 0 Unitary authorities Herefordshire 30 0 0 Stoke-on-Trent 90 5— 5— Telford and Wrekin 40 5— 5— Metropolitan districts Birmingham 400 10 3 Coventry 110 5— 5— Dudley 60 5— 5— Sandwell 110 5— 5— Solihull 60 5— 5— Walsall 80 0 0 Wolverhampton 90 5— 5— East of England 1,200 20 2 Shire counties Bedfordshire 80 0 0 Cambridgeshire 90 0 0 Essex 260 10 2 Hertfordshire 200 10 4 Norfolk 180 5— 5— Suffolk 130 5— 5— Unitary authorities Luton 90 0 0 Peterborough 70 5— 5— Southend 60 5— 5— Thurrock 50 0 0 London 3,100 120 4 Inner London 1,400 60 5 Camden 110 5— 5— City of London 5— 0 0 Greenwich 130 10 9 Hackney 110 10 7 Hammersmith and Fulham 100 5— 5— Islington 110 5— 5— Kensington and Chelsea 60 5— 5— Lambeth 160 10 8 Lewisham 160 10 4 Southwark 190 10 4 Tower Hamlets 100 5— 5— Wandsworth 70 5— 5— Westminster 80 5— 5— Outer London 1,700 60 3 Barking and Dagenham 100 5— 5— Barnet 100 5— 5— Bexley 60 5— 5— Brent 90 5— 5— Bromley 70 5— 5— Croydon 200 10 3 Ealing 110 5— 5— Enfield 70 5— 5— Haringey 150 5— 5— Harrow 40 5— 5— Havering 50 5— 5— Hillingdon 160 5— 5— Hounslow 70 5— 5— Kingston Upon Thames 30 5— 5— Merton 40 5— 5— Newham 160 10 6 Redbridge 50 5— 5— Richmond Upon Thames 30 5— 5— Sutton 30 5— 5— Waltham Forest 90 0 0 South East 1,700 20 1 Shire counties Buckinghamshire 60 0 0 East Sussex 100 5— 5— Hampshire 230 5— 5— Kent 300 5— 5— Oxfordshire 120 5— 5— Surrey 190 5— 5— West Sussex 170 5— 5— Unitary authorities Bracknell Forest 20 0 0 Brighton and Hove 90 5— 5— Isle of Wight 40 5— 5— Medway Towns 80 0 0 Milton Keynes 40 0 0 Portsmouth 60 5— 5— Reading 30 5— 5— Slough 30 5— 5— Southampton 70 0 0 West Berkshire 30 0 0 Windsor and Maidenhead 10 0 0 Wokingham 10 0 0 South West 1,100 30 2 Shire counties Cornwall 140 5— 5— Devon 140 5— 5— Dorset 80 0 0 Gloucestershire 100 5— 5— Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 Somerset 90 0 0 Wiltshire 60 5— 5— Unitary authorities Bath and N E Somerset 20 0 0 Bournemouth 40 5— 5— Bristol 130 5— 5— North Somerset 30 5— 5— Plymouth 110 5— 5— Poole 20 0 0 South Gloucestershire 40 5— 5— Swindon 50 5— 5— Torbay 60 5— 5— 1 Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements. 2 This is the first year of data collection and some authorities have reported difficulties in recording this information. 3 All females in care aged 12 and over. 4 All mothers in care aged 12 and over. 5 Small numbers suppressed to preserve confidentiality. Normally this will be a number between 1 and 5 inclusive, or a percentage where either the Numerator is between 1 and 5 or the Denominator is between 1 and 10 inclusive.
The information requested has been placed in the House Library.