Present the statistics contained in the following passage in an appropriate visual form other than a table. Give your chart a suitable tide.

The fantastic expansion of local authority social service is of course the obvious boom story: up by 50 per cent from 1969 to 1971, from £267 million to £401 million. The number of social workers rose over the same year from 7,000 to nearly 11,000, outstripped nevertheless by the increase in 'other social services staff - presumably administrative -

f:-om 6,000 to 12,000. The largest increase in the work of the departments was a staggering rise in the numbers of children in care - from 71,000 in 1970 to 87,000 in 1971, most of this due to children in remand homes and approved schools coming under local authorities since the Children and Young Persons Act 1969. There was a gradual but alarming increase in the numbers taken into care because of bad home conditions (up 300 per cent since 1959) and those abandoned or lost (up 400 per cent since 1959). The numbers of old people in residential homes continued its upward march, from 82,000 in 1959 to 117,000 in 1970, reflecting as much a decrease in community concern as an increase in statutory provision. The overall picture given by the statistics is not an encouraging one: burgeoning social services only beginning to discover the extent of need and an almost stagnant health service.

New Society, 1 February 1973