Decision details
*Republished - no longer subject to call in* 2020/21 Foster Carer Rates
Decision Maker: Executive Member for Education, Learning & Skills
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
1. That the 2020/2021 Payment Rates for NYCC
Foster Carers (including Family & Friends Foster Carers, Short
Break and Specialist Short Break Carers and Staying Put
arrangements) be increased by 1.4% (in line with the December 2019
rate of CPI) of the 2019/2020 Payment Rates.
2. That the Day Care rate of £6.57 per hour be increased to
£6.98 per hour (to keep in line with 80% of the level of the
National Living Wage being introduced in April 2020).
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: 15/04/2021
Date of decision: 17/03/2020