The Fostering Network
  
Information Management
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
Telephone 01926 412211
Email xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx 
 
 
Please ask for Bruce Green 
 
 
 
 
Our ref: 7927472
Your ref: 
Date: 20th June 2022
 
Dear The Fostering Network
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000  
 
Your request for information has been considered by Warwickshire County Council 
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 
 
I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Warwickshire County 
Council. 
 
Please see below for further details and explanation.  
 
You asked us: 
 
Freedom of Information request - Foster Care allowances. 
  
1. Please could you tell me your 2022-23 weekly foster care allowances for all age 
bands, NOT including any fee / reward element for foster carers? 
 
Please see the Excel spreadsheet 'FoI_7927472_ResponseDoc' attached to our 
covering e-mail. Please note - each question is answered on a separate tab of the 
spreadsheet. 
2. Please detail any allowances that ALL foster carers can claim in addition to 
their weekly allowance, e.g., holiday allowance or mileage? 
 
Please see the Excel spreadsheet 'FoI_7927472_ResponseDoc' attached to our 
covering e-mail. Please note - each question is answered on a separate tab of the 
spreadsheet. 
 

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3. Please could you tell me your 2022-23 weekly allowances for former foster 
carers looking after young people in 18+ Staying Put arrangements, broken down 
by year 1, year 2, and year 3 if necessary?
 
£153.00 per week for all years of the placement up to age of 21 or end of placement. 
Yours faithfully.  
 
 
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an 
internal review.  Internal review requests should be submitted within 40 days of the date 
of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to: 
 
Information Management
Shire Hall 
Warwick 
CV34 4RL
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
 
 
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to 
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information 
Commissioner can be contacted at:  
The Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF
Phone: 0303 123 1113 
Website: www.ico.gov.uk
 
I will now close your request as of this date.
 
 
Yours faithfully
 
 
Bruce Green
Information Rights Officer
 

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