Foster care allowances and payments

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The Fostering Network

Dear East Renfrewshire Council,

1) Please could you tell me your 2020-21 weekly foster care allowances for all age bands, NOT including any fee/reward element for foster carers.

2) Please detail any allowances that ALL foster carers can claim in addition to their weekly allowance, e.g. holiday allowance or mileage.

3) 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.

4) Please could you tell me your 2020-21 weekly allowances for 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.

5) 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.

Yours faithfully,

Isabel Roberts

*Customer Services, East Renfrewshire Council

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*Customer Services, East Renfrewshire Council

Thank you for your enquiry.

 

A Customer Service Officer will either answer your enquiry directly or
forward it to the appropriate Officer in East Renfrewshire Council within
the next 5 working days.

 

If your enquiry is a complaint you should receive a response within 5
working days.  If it is a Freedom of Information request you should
receive a response within 20 working days.

 

Did you know you can access a wide range of Council services online 24/7.
[1]www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/doitonline

 

The council processes your personal data on the legal basis of carrying
out tasks in the public interest or for performance of a contract.  You
can find out how we use your information in our privacy statement on our
website. [2]http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/datap...

 

Kind regards

 

Customer Services

 

 

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Dear Ms Roberts

Thank you for your FOI enquiry.  Please find our response attached. 
Please note that the continuing care rates are under review and may
change.

East Renfrewshire Council offers the opportunity to apply to the Council
for a review of how we have dealt with your enquiry.  If you wish to
proceed to review, please apply in writing within 40 working days to:

 

Chief Officer - Legal & Procurement
Council Headquarters

Rouken Glen Road

Giffnock G46 6UG

 

marking your letter ‘Freedom of Information – request for review’ and
stating the exact nature of the matter you wish to be reviewed.

 

The review will be carried out within 20 working days of receipt.  If you
are dissatisfied with the outcome of the review, you have the right to
then appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner who has extensive
powers to investigate such matters.  His address is:

 

Scottish Information Commissioner

Kinburn Castle

St Andrews

Fife KY16 9DS

 

 

Regards

 

East Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership
HSCP Headquarters, Eastwood Health and Care Centre, Drumby Crescent,
Clarkston, G76 7HN
0141 451 0500

 

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