Foster care allowances and payments

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Dear Inverclyde Council,

1) Please could you tell me your 2017-18 weekly foster care allowances for all age bands, NOT including any fee/reward element for foster carers.

2) Please detail your current fee/reward structure for foster carers (NB this is different to allowances for the child). Please include:
i) Details of the levels/bands for carers and how much you pay per week at each level/band.
ii) The number of foster carers on each level/band, including those that receive no fee on top of the child’s allowance.

3) Please could you tell me your weekly allowances to former foster carers looking after young people in 16+/18+ Continuing Care arrangements, broken down by year 1, year 2, and year 3+ if necessary.

4) Please detail your current fee/reward structure for former foster carers looking after young people in 16+/18+ Continuing Care arrangements. Please include:
i) Details of the levels/bands and how much you pay per week at each level/band.
ii) The number of former foster carers on each level/band, including those that receive no fee on top of the child’s allowance.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Robert Cann

foi, Inverclyde Council

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foi hscp, Inverclyde Council

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Dear Mr Cann,

 

I write in relation to your Freedom of Information Request to Inverclyde
Council dated 20th July 2017, and note below our response.

 

1) Please could you tell me your 2017-18 weekly foster care allowances for
all age bands, NOT including any fee/reward element for foster carers.

 

Please see attached leaflet.

 

2) Please detail your current fee/reward structure for foster carers (NB
this is different to allowances for the child). Please include:

i) Details of the levels/bands for carers and how much you pay per week at
each level/band.

 

Please see attached leaflet.

 

ii) The number of foster carers on each level/band, including those that
receive no fee on top of the child’s allowance.

 

Level                                     No. of Carers

1                                              2

2                                              19

3                                              12

4                                              4

 

3) Please could you tell me your weekly allowances to former foster carers
looking after young people in 16+/18+ Continuing Care arrangements, broken
down by year 1, year 2, and year 3+ if necessary.

 

We have no former foster carers looking after children or young people.

 

4) Please detail your current fee/reward structure for former foster
carers looking after young people in 16+/18+ Continuing Care arrangements.
Please include:

i) Details of the levels/bands and how much you pay per week at each
level/band.

ii) The number of former foster carers on each level/band, including those
that receive no fee on top of the child’s allowance.

 

See question 3.

 

I attach a copy of our review policy in case you are dissatisfied with any
aspect of this response.

 

Many thanks

 

 

 

Bryan Kane, SSA

Inverclyde HSCP

Hector NcNeil House, 7/8 Clyde Square, Greenock, Inverclyde PA15 1NB

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