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asked the Minister for Health the number of parents fostering children or available to foster children in each of the health board areas; and the number of such parents fostering such children in each of the health board areas in each year from 1975 to 1983, inclusive.
469.
asked the Minister for Health the number of children in care in each of the health board areas on 30 October in each year from 1975 up to and including 1983; the number placed in care: (a) by court order, (b) voluntarily by parent or other relation and the number in each case: (a) in residential care, (b) in foster care through health boards and (c) in foster care by private arrangements.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 468 and 469 together. The information is not readily available in the form required. However, I have arranged for my Department to send the Deputy a statistical report and analysis of children in care during each of the years 1980 to 1981. If the Deputy requires further details I suggest that he direct his inquiries to the individual health boards.
