Foster Care Allowances and Payments

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Dear Croydon Borough 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 Staying Put 18+ 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 Staying Put 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

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Dear Mr Cann

 

Freedom of Information request

 

Thank you for your e-mail in which you have requested information
regarding foster care allowances

 

Please see the below comment from the service in question regarding the
time it will take to provide the information.

 

This would take longer than 18 hours but if the requester would like to
limit their questions to the first two questions and then search our
Staying Put Policy online, we could do it inside of 18 hours.

 

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Dear Freedom Of Information,

Thank you for this message. Please just address the first two questions.

Many thanks.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Cann

Freedom of Information, Croydon Borough Council

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Dear Mr Cann

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Yours sincerely

 

Steven Borg

FOI Coordinator

Croydon Council

 

Council services, online, 24/7 www.croydon.gov.uk/myaccount Download our
new free My Croydon app for a faster, smarter and better way to report
local issues www.croydon.gov.uk/app From 1 October 2015, it is a legal
requirement for all privately rented properties in Croydon to be licensed.
Landlords without a licence could face fines of up to £20,000. For more
information and to apply for a licence visit
www.croydon.gov.uk/betterplacetorent Please use this web site address to
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