Leaving Care Grant

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Dear Renfrewshire Council,
Can you please tell me how much Renfrewshire Council pay to a young adult leaving care (also known as a leaving care grant) .
Also the amount of money Renfrewshire Council has for this function 2017.
Also can you tell me who decides the amounts given, if it is based on legislation and what policy if any is used to implement it.

Yours faithfully,
Sean Nicholson

FOI, Renfrewshire Council

Dear Mr Nicolson,

Freedom of Information Application - IG171506

Thank you for your enquiry, received by the Council on 23/11/17.

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Dear Mr Nicholson

 

Please find attached a response to your recent FOI request. 

 

I trust this is helpful.

 

Review Procedure

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your request, you are entitled to require the Council to review its
decision.  A copy of the Council’s review procedures is detailed in the
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solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.
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Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000,
intercept e-mail messages for the purpose of monitoring or keeping a
record of communications on the Council's system. If a message contains
inappropriate dialogue it will automatically be intercepted by the
Council's Internal Audit section who will decide whether or not the e-mail
should be onwardly transmitted to the intended recipient(s).

Renfrewshire Council is decommissioning all gcsx email between now and
November 2017. The Council email domain will change to
@renfrewshire.gov.uk. My new email address will still allow me to send
email to you securely as it meets the UK Government’s Secure Email
Blueprint (SEB)