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*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