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*re-published: call-in no longer applies* 2019/20 Payment Rates for NYCC Foster Carers

Decision Maker: Corporate Director Children and Young People's Services

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

That the following revisions to fostering support allowances be approved for 2019-20:

• Payment Rates for NYCC Foster Carers (including Family & Friend Foster Carers, Short Break and Specialist Short Break Carers and Staying Put arrangements) be increased by 2.1% (in line with the December 2019 rate of CPI). This is for all allowances, premiums and fees with the exception of those on original protected rates.
• The Day Care rate to £6.57 per hour (to keep in line with 80% of the Living Wage being introduced in April 2019).

Reasons for the decision:

*PLEASE NOTE This decision was originally published on or near the date of the decision and so call in no longer applies. It has been re-published as part of the change in committee management system that we use.*

The Council is a member of the national charity Fostering Network who, in recent years, has published their recommended Payment Rates for Foster Carers which North Yorkshire has always adopted. Primarily due to the increasing differentials in housing costs across the country, the Fostering Network is no longer recommending Payment Rates and has instead issued guidance that allowances should be reviewed annually and adjusted to keep up with costs with at least the annual rate of inflation being applied. The Fostering Network does not indicate which would be their recommended or preferred measure of inflation.

Since December 2015 North Yorkshire has increased fostering payments by the rate of CPI each December.

Publication date: 14/04/2021

Date of decision: 29/03/2019