but, we know that april was a low figure, we also know that july and august are low  a figure which comes out from this graph  and was given to me by the director yesterday, is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month  twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year  a thr over a three year average residency period  three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care, where  then is the real problem.