The information requested is detailed in the Annex.
The Department has since September 2004 collected data on the number of applications made by local authorities to the courts for education-related parenting orders in cases of irregular school attendance and exclusions.
School academic year 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Number of education-related parenting orders made between 1 September 2004 and 31 August 2007 England 1,446 North East 12 35 44 91 841 Darlington 1 2 2 5 840 Durham 0 3 1 4 390 Gateshead 0 0 4 4 805 Hartlepool 0 0 2 2 806 Middlesbrough 0 4 7 11 391 Newcastle upon Tyne 0 0 0 0 392 North Tyneside 0 0 0 0 929 Northumberland 0 0 0 0 807 Redcar and Cleveland 1 6 13 20 393 South Tyneside 6 4 3 13 808 Stockton-on-Tees 0 1 0 1 394 Sunderland 4 15 12 31 North West 103 110 112 325 889 Blackburn with Darwen 0 6 0 6 890 Blackpool 10 10 8 28 350 Bolton 1 0 0 1 351 Bury 0 1 3 4 875 Cheshire 2 0 0 2 909 Cumbria 7 3 8 18 876 Hatton 0 2 4 6 340 Knowsley 1 0 5 6 888 Lancashire 15 12 15 42 341 Liverpool 7 5 23 35 352 Manchester 3 4 1 8 353 Oldham 0 0 0 0 354 Rochdale 1 4 4 9 355 Salford 14 16 28 58 343 Sefton 0 0 0 0 342 St. Helens 0 0 1 1 356 Stockport 5 4 0 9 357 Tameside 7 6 1 14 358 Trafford 6 4 8 18 877 Warrington 0 2 0 2 359 Wigan 17 29 3 49 344 Wirral 7 2 0 9 Yorkshire and The Humber 56 57 56 169 370 Barnsley 15 9 11 35 380 Bradford 6 5 9 20 381 Calderdale 3 10 2 15 371 Doncaster 3 13 11 27 811 East Riding of Yorkshire 6 5 3 14 810 Kingston Upon Hull, City of 4 2 0 6 382 Kirklees 2 0 1 3 383 Leeds 15 10 14 39 812 North East Lincolnshire 0 0 0 0 813 North Lincolnshire 0 2 2 4 815 North Yorkshire 0 1 0 1 372 Rotherham 0 0 0 0 373 Sheffield 2 0 2 4 384 Wakefield 0 0 1 1 816 York 0 0 0 0 East Midlands 32 43 18 93 831 Derby 0 0 3 3 830 Derbyshire 6 7 2 15 856 Leicester 19 31 12 62 855 Leicestershire 3 4 1 8 925 Lincolnshire 0 0 0 0 928 Northamptonshire 0 0 0 0 892 Nottingham 4 0 0 4 891 Nottinghamshire 0 1 0 1 857 Rutland 0 0 0 0 West Midlands 12 10 12 34 330 Birmingham 2 0 1 3 331 Coventry 0 0 0 0 332 Dudley 0 0 1 1 884 Herefordshire 0 0 0 0 333 Sandwell 0 0 0 0 893 Shropshire 1 1 1 3 334 Solihull 0 0 1 1 860 Staffordshire 0 2 0 2 861 Stoke-on-Trent 4 5 0 9 894 Telford and Wrekin 0 0 0 0 335 Walsall 0 2 6 8 937 Warwickshire 0 0 1 1 336 Wolverhampton 0 0 0 0 885 Worcestershire 5 0 1 6 East of England 26 26 20 72 820 Bedfordshire 5 7 7 19 873 Cambridgeshire 2 0 0 2 881 Essex 14 13 5 32 919 Hertfordshire 0 0 1 1 821 Luton 0 1 1 2 926 Norfolk 0 5 5 10 874 Peterborough 0 0 0 0 882 Southend-on-Sea 0 0 0 0 935 Suffolk 5 0 1 6 883 Thurrock 0 0 0 0 London Inner London 29 35 37 101 202 Camden 0 1 0 1 201 City of London 0 0 0 0 204 Hackney 1 5 6 12 205 Hammersmith and Fulham 6 8 8 22 309 Haringey 0 1 2 3 206 Islington 0 1 1 2 207 Kensington and Chelsea 6 3 0 9 208 Lambeth 0 0 0 0 209 Lewisham 14 15 9 38 316 Newham 0 0 0 0 210 Southwark 1 1 2 4 211 Tower Hamlets 0 0 0 0 212 Wandsworth 0 0 6 6 213 Westminster 1 0 3 4 Outer London 43 81 69 193 301 Barking and Dagenham 0 0 3 3 302 Barnet 0 0 1 1 303 Bexley 4 5 9 18 304 Brent 4 15 7 26 305 Bromley 9 1 3 13 306 Croydon 2 0 4 6 307 Ealing 1 1 1 3 308 Enfield 1 4 7 12 203 Greenwich 9 28 13 50 310 Harrow 0 0 0 0 311 Havering 0 0 0 0 312 Hillingdon 1 4 1 6 313 Hounslow 0 0 0 0 314 Kingston upon Thames 6 3 5 14 315 Merton 0 2 2 4 317 Redbridge 0 0 2 2 318 Richmond upon Thames 3 3 3 9 319 Sutton 3 14 8 25 320 Waltham Forest 0 1 0 1 South East 64 73 91 228 867 Bracknell Forest 0 0 0 0 846 Brighton and Hove 4 2 2 8 825 Buckinghamshire 7 1 0 8 845 East Sussex 1 0 0 1 850 Hampshire 19 23 20 62 921 Isle of Wight 2 1 2 5 886 Kent 12 25 40 77 887 Medway 0 1 0 1 826 Milton Keynes 0 2 0 2 931 Oxfordshire 2 3 2 7 851 Portsmouth 5 7 7 19 870 Reading 0 0 3 3 871 Slough 0 0 0 0 852 Southampton 12 7 13 32 936 Surrey 0 0 1 1 869 West Berkshire 0 1 1 2 938 West Sussex 0 0 0 0 868 Windsor and Maidenhead 0 0 0 0 872 Wokingham 0 0 0 0 South West 48 41 51 140 800 Bath and North East Somerset 5 0 3 8 837 Bournemouth 7 3 3 13 801 Bristol, City of 8 9 3 20 908 Cornwall 0 6 0 6 878 Devon 6 3 4 13 835 Dorset 0 2 10 12 916 Gloucestershire 1 0 0 1 420 Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0 802 North Somerset 7 1 3 11 879 Plymouth 0 0 0 0 836 Poole 1 1 6 8 933 Somerset 0 2 0 2 803 South Gloucestershire 2 9 5 16 866 Swindon 5 3 3 11 880 Torbay 3 0 2 5 865 Wiltshire 3 2 9 14