Decision details
*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